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Juvenile Arrests 2006

In 2006, juvenile arrest rates for violent crimes such as murder, forcible rape, robbery, and aggravated assault increased 4 percent over 2005 rates, and juveniles accounted for 17 percent of all violent crime arrests in 2006. This annual Bulletin highlights statistics and trends for juvenile arrests in 2006 compiled by the Federal Bureau of Investigation's Uniform Crime Reporting Program, which gathers crime and arrest statistics from local law enforcement agencies across the country. Other highlights of the Bulletin's findings include analysis of juvenile murder victims, total number of juveniles arrested in 2006, and a percentage analysis of juvenile involvement in violent crime by offense. To order a printed copy of Juvenile Arrests 2006, go to the NCJRS Web site and search "NCJ 221338."

Girls Study Group: Charting the Way to Delinquency Prevention for Girls

This Bulletin provides an overview of the Girls Study Group (GSG), a research project convened by OJJDP to determine why arrest rates for girls increased more (or decreased less) than arrests of boys for most types of offenses. OJJDP will release a series of GSG Bulletins examining issues such as patterns of offending among adolescents and how they differ for girls and boys; risk and protective factors associated with delinquency, including gender differences; and the causes and correlates of girls' delinquency. To order a printed copy of Charting the Way to Delinquency Prevention for Girls, go to the NCJRS Web site and search "NCJ 223434." Another Bulletin in the series, Violence by Teenage Girls: Trends and Context, was released in May 2008 and is available online; the remaining Bulletins will be released in the coming months.

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Introduction to the Survey of Youth in Residential Placement

The Survey of Youth in Residential Placement (SYRP) gathers information directly from youth in custody in the juvenile justice system through anonymous interviews. SYRP complements the two other components of OJJDP's multitiered effort to collect information on the juvenile custody population, the Census of Juveniles in Residential Placement, and the Juvenile Residential Facility Census. (See the story "OJJDP To Release Data on Juvenile Facilities and Residents" in this issue.) OJJDP is producing a series of SYRP Bulletins that report on the first national survey, covering its development and design and providing detailed information on the juveniles' characteristics, backgrounds, and expectations; their needs and the services they received; and their experiences of victimization while in placement. This Bulletin, the first in the series, reviews SYRP's background, describes its design and methodology, discusses its strengths and limitations, and summarizes the questions it answers about the population of youth in custody.

Domestic Assaults by Juvenile Offenders

In one of every four assaults that youth commit, the victims are individuals with whom the offender has a domestic relationship, either through family ties or an intimate partnership. This Bulletin offers a detailed report on the characteristics of juvenile domestic assaults reported to law enforcement. It analyzes data from the FBI's National Incident-Based Reporting System to provide a profile of the relative occurrence of domestic assaults in 2004 involving juveniles and adults as perpetrators and victims.

Co-occurrence of Substance Use Behaviors in Youth

This Bulletin examines the prevalence and overlap of substance-related behaviors among youth, making comparisons based on age group, gender, and race/ethnicity. Findings reported in this Bulletin are drawn from the first two stages of the 1997 National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, which gathered self-reports from a nationally representative sample of youth ages 12–17 in 1997 and 1998. The data are derived from questions survey participants answered regarding their alcohol and drug use during the previous 30 days, including the frequency of their consumption, the types of drugs used, and whether they had sold drugs. The central finding of the analysis is that, if individuals engage in one substance-related behavior, they are much more likely to engage in other substance-related behaviors.