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An Abundance of Information is Just a Click Away: The Statistical Briefing Book is Available Online
by Melissa Sickmund, PhD

The Statistical Briefing Book is an information resource developed for the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention by the National Center for Juvenile Justice, the research division of the National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges. The Statistical Briefing Book can be found online at the OJJDP website.

The Statistical Briefing Book is a comprehensive online information resource that describes various topics related to delinquency and the juvenile justice system, including the latest information on juveniles living in poverty, teen birth rates, juvenile victims of violent crime, trends in juvenile arrest rates, and youth in residential placement facilities.

FAQs: Frequently Asked Questions provide the latest answers to the most commonly asked questions about juvenile offending, victimization of juveniles, and the involvement of youth in the juvenile justice system.

Data Analysis Tools: Data analysis and dissemination tools available through the Statistical Briefing Book give users quick and “easy access” to detailed statistics on a variety of juvenile justice topics. These tools allow users to create national, state, and county tables on juvenile populations, arrests, court cases, and custody populations. The Statistical Briefing Book makes it easy for policymakers, judges, juvenile justice practitioners, students, the media, and the general public to access timely and reliable statistical information on juvenile justice. The Statistical Briefing Book is an invaluable resource even for users outside the juvenile justice system. In fact, the Easy Access to Juvenile Populations data analysis tool, the most visited area of the site, is a terrific place to get population data for the denominator of rate statistics or to include a grant application.

So, make the Statistical Briefing Book your first stop for statistical information on juvenile populations and juvenile justice.

Data Analysis Tools

• Easy Access to Juvenile Populations provides access to national, state, and county level population data detailed by age, sex, race, and Hispanic ethnicity. Users can view population profiles for a single jurisdiction or create state comparison or county comparison tables.
• Easy Access to the FBI’s Supplementary Homicide Reports gives users access to more than two decades of data on homicide victims and homicide offenders, including information on the age, sex, and race of both victims and offenders, the victim-offender relationship, and the type of weapon used. Users can also view multiyear state homicide profiles.
• Easy Access to NIBRS: Victims of Domestic Violence allows users to analyze data on victims of domestic violence, including information on the age, sex, and race of both victims and offenders, the victim-offender relationship, and injuries to the victim, as well as characteristics of the incident, including presence of a weapon, location, day of week, and clearance type.
• Easy Access to FBI Arrest Statistics provides access to national, state, and county level arrest statistics. Users can choose between displays of arrest counts and arrest rates for juveniles, adults, or all ages combined. Displays present arrest statistics for 29 detailed offense categories.
• Easy Access to Juvenile Court Statistics lets users access data on juvenile court processing of more than 30 million delinquency cases, including information on the age, sex, and race of juveniles involved, the use of detention, adjudication, and disposition.
• Easy Access to State and County Juvenile Court Case Counts gives users quick access to the state and county juvenile court case counts for delinquency, status offense, and dependency cases.
• Juvenile Court Statistics Databook lets users view pre-formatted tables describing the demographic characteristics of youth involved in the juvenile justice system and how juvenile courts process these cases.
• Easy Access to the Census of Juveniles in Residential Placement was developed to facilitate independent analysis of national data on the characteristics of youth held in residential placement facilities, including detailed information about the youth’s age, sex, race/ethnicity, placement status, length of stay, and most serious offense.
• Census of Juveniles in Residential Placement Databook contains a large set of pre-defined tables detailing the characteristics of juvenile offenders in custody. Users can view custody population profiles for a single jurisdiction or state comparison tables.
• National Disproportionate Minority Contact Databook presents national DMC data for the juvenile justice system and Relative Rate Index Matrices along with written interpretations of the findings. Users can review the raw counts and rates that characterize the processing of delinquency cases by the juvenile justice system and then study the Relative Rate Index Matrix that helps to pinpoint and quantify the levels of racial disparity introduced at various decision points within the system.

Other Resources

• Compendium of National Juvenile Justice Data Sets
• Links to more than 25 web-based resources
• OJJDP's flagship statistical publication, Juvenile Offenders and Victims: 2006 National Report, which offers a clear view of juvenile crime and the justice system’s response at the beginning of the 21st century, is available for download.

If you can’t find the information you need, please feel free to contact a Statistical Briefing Book staff person at 412–227–6950 or ncjj@ncjj.org.

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