Key Studies on Juvenile Crime

Jill DeVoe et al. 2000. Indicators of School Crime and Safety: 2002. The Bureau of Justice Statistics and National Center for Education Statistics. Available online at: http://nces.ed.gov/pubs2003/2003009a.pdf

This latest report on school crime shows that more serious victimizations happen away from school than at school. In 2000, students were more than two times as likely to be victims of serious violent crime away from school as at school. The data also indicate that overall school victimization rates have declined. The percentage of students who reported being victims of crime at school decreased from 10 percent of all students in 1995 to 6 percent in 2001.

Snyder, Howard. (2002). Juvenile Arrests 2000. Washington, DC: Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention.

Summary: Youth crime has continued to decline for the sixth consecutive year. The latest statistics from the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) show that the youth arrest rate for Violent Crime Index offenses dropped 41% between 1994 and 2000, reaching its lowest level in 14 years. The youth arrest rate for murder fell 74% from its peak in 1993 to its lowest level since the 1960s. For more data, this report is available online at http://www.ncjrs.org/html/ojjdp/jjbul2002_11_1/contents.html