Police Disposition
of Juvenile Offenders Taken into Custody, 2009
The FBI collects these data through the Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program.
General comments
- The totals in this table represent the reported number of juvenile offenders taken into custody, aggregated by population group. In addition, this table provides the number of juveniles handled within five different disposition categories. The percent distribution within these categories for each population group is also included.
- These data represent the reported number of juvenile offenders taken into custody; however, some juveniles may be taken into custody more than once during a year. Therefore, the statistics in this table could, in some cases, represent multiple detentions of the same person.
Methodology
- The data used in creating this table were from all law enforcement agencies submitting 12 months of arrest data for 2009 and providing juvenile disposition information.
- In constructing this table, the FBI accepted each individual state’s age definition for juveniles.
Population estimation
For the 2009 population estimates used in this table, the FBI computed individual rates of growth from one year to the next for every city/town and county using 2000 decennial population counts and 2001 through 2008 population estimates from the U.S. Census Bureau. Each agency’s rates of growth were averaged; that average was then applied and added to its 2008 Census population estimate to derive the agency’s 2009 population estimate.