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    • Juvenile Court Statistics, 1986: Reported Cases in Calendar Year Data Base

    Metadata Updated: November 14, 2025

    This data collection describes in quantitative terms the volume of juvenile cases disposed by courts having jurisdiction over juvenile matters (delinquency, status, and dependency cases). Inaugurated in 1926 to furnish an index of the problems brought before the juvenile courts, this series is the oldest continuous source of information on the processing of delinquent and dependent youth done by juvenile courts. Information is provided on state, county, number of delinquency cases by sex, number of status cases by sex, number of dependency cases by sex, and total number of cases by sex.

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    Public: This dataset is intended for public access and use. License: us-pd

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    Dates

    Metadata Created Date August 18, 2021
    Metadata Updated Date November 14, 2025

    Metadata Source

    Harvested from DOJ JSON

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    Additional Metadata

    Resource Type Dataset
    Metadata Created Date August 18, 2021
    Metadata Updated Date November 14, 2025
    Publisher Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention
    Maintainer
    Identifier 3942
    Data First Published 1992-03-04T00:00:00
    Language eng
    Data Last Modified 1992-03-04T00:00:00
    Public Access Level public
    Bureau Code 011:21
    Metadata Context https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.jsonld
    Metadata Catalog ID https://www.justice.gov/data.json
    Schema Version https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema
    Catalog Describedby https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.json
    Collection Package Id 7a358ce7-c3ae-4fbd-a180-ca50d5025f50
    Harvest Object Id 1921db97-1a76-4e9a-b172-51b036eb30da
    Harvest Source Id 3290e90a-116f-42fc-86ac-e65521ef3b68
    Harvest Source Title DOJ JSON
    License http://www.usa.gov/publicdomain/label/1.0/
    Program Code 011:000
    Publisher Hierarchy Office of Justice Programs > Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention
    Source Datajson Identifier True
    Source Hash e46cf21833ef25764021e222cfdf48cd4f788f514adc36c5d25756c56db2781b
    Source Schema Version 1.1

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