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National Trends in Youth Crime Jeffrey A. Butts, Director Research and Evaluation Center John Jay College of Criminal Justice City University of New York February 6, 2012 Presented to the Seventh Annual Harry Frank Guggenheim Symposium on Crime in America John Jay College of Criminal Justice, New York, NY Research and Evaluation Center Summary of Youth Crime Trends • Total juvenile arrests are down since the 1990s • Juvenile arrests for violent crime reached a 30-year low • As violence dropped, arrests for other crimes increased • Arrests for minor assaults, drug offenses, and disorderly conduct are all up significantly since the 1990s • Drug arrests are now far more likely to be for possession rather than manufacture and sale Research and Evaluation Center Juvenile arrests fell by more than a third since 1996 Source: Snyder, Howard and Mulako-Wangota, J., Arrest Data Analysis Tool at www.bjs.gov. Washington, D.C.: Bureau of Justice Statistics, U.S. Department of Justice (1980-2009). Estimates for 2010 calculated directly using data from Crime in the United States 2010, Federal Bureau of Investigation. Research and Evaluation Center Violent juvenile arrests reached a 30-year low Source: Snyder, Howard and Mulako-Wangota, J., Arrest Data Analysis Tool at www.bjs.gov. Washington, D.C.: Bureau of Justice Statistics, U.S. Department of Justice (1980-2009). Estimates for 2010 calculated directly using data from Crime in the United States 2010, Federal Bureau of Investigation. Research and Evaluation Center Most violent crime arrests involve adult offenders Source: Snyder, Howard and Mulako-Wangota, J., Arrest Data Analysis Tool at www.bjs.gov. Washington, D.C.: Bureau of Justice Statistics, U.S. Department of Justice (1980-2009). Estimates for 2010 calculated directly using data from Crime in the United States 2010, Federal Bureau of Investigation. Research and Evaluation Center As violence fell, arrests for other crimes increased Source: Snyder, Howard and Mulako-Wangota, J., Arrest Data Analysis Tool at www.bjs.gov. Washington, D.C.: Bureau of Justice Statistics, U.S. Department of Justice (1980-2009). Estimates for 2010 calculated directly using data from Crime in the United States 2010, Federal Bureau of Investigation. Research and Evaluation Center As violence fell, arrests for other crimes increased Source: Snyder, Howard and Mulako-Wangota, J., Arrest Data Analysis Tool at www.bjs.gov. Washington, D.C.: Bureau of Justice Statistics, U.S. Department of Justice (1980-2009). Estimates for 2010 calculated directly using data from Crime in the United States 2010, Federal Bureau of Investigation. Research and Evaluation Center As violence fell, arrests for other crimes increased Source: Snyder, Howard and Mulako-Wangota, J., Arrest Data Analysis Tool at www.bjs.gov. Washington, D.C.: Bureau of Justice Statistics, U.S. Department of Justice (1980-2009). Estimates for 2010 calculated directly using data from Crime in the United States 2010, Federal Bureau of Investigation. Research and Evaluation Center As violence fell, arrests for other crimes increased Source: Snyder, Howard and Mulako-Wangota, J., Arrest Data Analysis Tool at www.bjs.gov. Washington, D.C.: Bureau of Justice Statistics, U.S. Department of Justice (1980-2009). Estimates for 2010 calculated directly using data from Crime in the United States 2010, Federal Bureau of Investigation. Research and Evaluation Center As violence fell, arrests for other crimes increased Source: Snyder, Howard and Mulako-Wangota, J., Arrest Data Analysis Tool at www.bjs.gov. Washington, D.C.: Bureau of Justice Statistics, U.S. Department of Justice (1980-2009). Estimates for 2010 calculated directly using data from Crime in the United States 2010, Federal Bureau of Investigation. Research and Evaluation Center As violence fell, arrests for other crimes increased Source: Snyder, Howard and Mulako-Wangota, J., Arrest Data Analysis Tool at www.bjs.gov. Washington, D.C.: Bureau of Justice Statistics, U.S. Department of Justice (1980-2009). Estimates for 2010 calculated directly using data from Crime in the United States 2010, Federal Bureau of Investigation. Research and Evaluation Center As violence fell, arrests for other crimes increased Source: Snyder, Howard and Mulako-Wangota, J., Arrest Data Analysis Tool at www.bjs.gov. Washington, D.C.: Bureau of Justice Statistics, U.S. Department of Justice (1980-2009). Estimates for 2010 calculated directly using data from Crime in the United States 2010, Federal Bureau of Investigation. Research and Evaluation Center The nature of drug arrests changed as violence fell Source: Snyder, Howard and Mulako-Wangota, J., Arrest Data Analysis Tool at www.bjs.gov. Washington, D.C.: Bureau of Justice Statistics, U.S. Department of Justice (1980-2009). Estimates for 2010 calculated directly using data from Crime in the United States 2010, Federal Bureau of Investigation. Research and Evaluation Center The nature of drug arrests changed as violence fell Source: Snyder, Howard and Mulako-Wangota, J., Arrest Data Analysis Tool at www.bjs.gov. Washington, D.C.: Bureau of Justice Statistics, U.S. Department of Justice (1980-2009). Estimates for 2010 calculated directly using data from Crime in the United States 2010, Federal Bureau of Investigation. Research and Evaluation Center Research and Evaluation Center John Jay College of Criminal Justice City University of New York www.johnjayresearch.org Research and Evaluation Center