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    • Juvenile Court Statistics, 1988: [United States]

    Metadata Updated: November 14, 2025

    This data collection describes in quantitative terms the volume of juvenile cases disposed in 1988 by courts having jurisdiction over juvenile matters (delinquency, status offense, 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 by juvenile courts. Information is provided on state, county, number of delinquency cases by sex, number of status offense 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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    This dataset is part of the following collection:

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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 4026
    Data First Published 1994-03-10T00:00:00
    Language eng
    Data Last Modified 2005-11-04T00:00:00
    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 4c39aa8d-a6e5-4505-94f1-62ea6f65b116
    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 5074db18390231817843ed99fcb9baf014b510c43409cb2e175c524b0e78e6eb
    Source Schema Version 1.1

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