Juvenile Crime Statistics

Every single year, law enforcement groups throughout the United States gather data on every arrest that was made during that year and send their findings to the Federal Bureau of Investigations Uniform Crime Reporting Program. The Federal Bureau of Investigation will next analyze and use the information to organize the Federal Bureau of Investigation's annual crime in the United States report. The type of evidence gathered for the Crime in the United States report is used to resolve the influence and disposition of juvenile crimes within the United States.

The Juvenile Arrests Bulletin of 2001 issued by the office of the Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention inspected any data accumulated in the Federal Bureau of Investigation's Crime in the United States 2001 to evaluate the styles of juvenile crime in the United States linked to earlier data reports. According to the Juvenile Arrests Bulletin of 2001, which examined the data collected on a state and a national level by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, juvenile arrests have significantly deteriorated in numerous areas including property crimes and violent crimes, whereas additional areas of juvenile arrest rates continue to be an interest for the juvenile justice system. In 2001, law enforcement officers in the United States made roughly 2.3 million arrests, 17 percent that were juvenile arrests and 15 percent were juveniles that were arrested for violent crimes. Violent crime rates and property crime rates for juveniles significantly decreased; although, arrests of female juvenile offenders for different crimes; generally arrested for assault and drug related crimes continued to stay considerably high in 2001. The crimes involved in the Violent Crime Index offense report for the Federal Bureau of Investigation are forcible rape, murder, aggravated assault, and robbery. In examining the data collected by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the arrest rate for Violent Crime Index crimes reduced in 2001 affecting the Violent Crime Index rate to be at the lowest since 1983. As a matter of fact, the juvenile arrest rate for murder dropped 70 percent from 1993 to 2001 in which the juvenile arrest rate decreased from 3,800 arrests in 1993 to merely 1,400 arrests in 2001 for murder. Furthermore, juvenile arrests for burglary reduced by 66 percent between 1980 and 2001, juvenile arrests for forcible rape dived to the lowest level since 1976, and the juvenile arrest rate for aggravated assault decreased between 1994 and 2001.

In contrast to the decline of violent crime rates for juveniles, drug crimes and simple assault rates drastically amplified in 2001. The juvenile arrest rates for simple assaults dramatically increased by over 150 percent between the late 1980s and 1990s and reached a historical high by 2001. As a matter of fact, local law enforcement agencies registered roughly 239,000 other assaults that consist of simple assaults for juvenile arrests made in