Juvenile court statistics 2022

Abstract

Juvenile Court Statistics 2022 describes delinquency cases and petitioned status offense cases handled between 2005 and 2022 by U.S. courts with juvenile jurisdiction. National estimates of juvenile court delinquency caseloads in 2022 were based on analyses of 347,884 automated case records and court-level statistics summarizing an additional 40,348 cases. Estimates of status offense cases formally processed by juvenile courts in 2022 were based on analyses of 39,192 automated caselevel records and court-level summary statistics on an additional 2,502 cases. The data used in the analyses were contributed to the National Juvenile Court Data Archive (Archive) by more than 2,300 courts with jurisdiction over 81% of the juvenile population in 2022.