Custody Data (1997-Present)

Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP), Serving Children, Families, and Communities

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Q:	Did any juvenile residential placement facilities hold more minority than nonminority youth in 1997?
A:	Nearly half of juvenile residential facilities had 50% or more minorities in their offender population on the census day, October 29, 1997.

Minority proportion of juveniles in residential placement by facility type, 1997

Minority proportion of juvenile offenders	Total	Type of facility		Total		Type of facility
Minority proportion of juvenile offenders	Total	Public	Private	Total		Public		Private

Total	2,844	1,108	1,736	100	%	100	%	100	%
75% – 100%	673	305	368	24		28		21
50% – 75%	684	312	372	24		28		21
25% – 50%	760	285	475	27		26		27
0% – 25%	727	206	521	26		19		30

Note: To protect the confidentiality of juvenile residents all published data from the Census of Juveniles in Residential Placement (CJRP) are rounded to the nearest multiple of three. Each cell is rounded independently, without consideration as to row or column totals. As a result, in many tables, the internal cells do not add to the marginal totals. Rates and percentages presented from CJRP are also based on rounded totals. More information on this rounding rule is available on the CJRP Databook Web site.

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Overall, minority youth represent 33% of the juvenile population ages 10 through 17 in the United States.
Among public facilities, in 28% of facilities minority youth accounted for between 75% and 100% of the offender population. Among private facilities, 21% had minority proportions in that range. A greater percentage of private facilities (30%) than public facilities (19%) had fewer than 25% minority offenders.

Internet citation: OJJDP Statistical Briefing Book. Online. Available: http://ojjdp.ncjrs.gov/ojstatbb/corrections/qa08506.asp?qaDate=20010228. Released on February 28, 2001.

Adapted from Sickmund, M. (2000). Census of Juveniles in Residential Placement 1997. Pittsburgh, PA: National Center for Juvenile Justice.

Data Source: Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention. Census of Juveniles in Residential Placement 1997 [machine-readable data files]. Washington, D.C.: OJJDP.