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Direct linkMorgan, Kirsten; Schlumpp, Arianne – Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, 2012
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander young people are substantially over-represented in the juvenile justice system in Australia, and this over-representation is highest in the most serious processes and outcomes--particularly in detention. This bulletin examines the numbers and characteristics of Indigenous young people in the juvenile justice…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Juvenile Justice, Indigenous Populations, Delinquency
Download full textCalifornia State Dept. of Justice, Sacramento. Bureau of Criminal Statistics and Special Services. – 1986
A statistical portrait of crime and deliquency in California in 1985 is presented in this document. These topics are discussed and illustrated by data tables and graphs: crimes (violent, property); arrests (felony, misdemeanor, changes in rates); adult felony arrest dispositions (dispositions, arrestees convicted); adult corrections (supervision,…
Descriptors: Correctional Institutions, Courts, Crime, Criminals
California State Dept. of Justice, Sacramento. Bureau of Criminal Statistics and Special Services. – 1987
A statistical portrait of crime and deliquency in California in 1986 is presented in this document. These topics are discussed and illustrated by data tables and graphs: crimes (violent, property); arrests (felony, misdemeanor, changes in rates); adult felony arrest dispositions (dispositions, arrestees convicted); adult corrections (supervision,…
Descriptors: Correctional Institutions, Courts, Crime, Criminals
Morrison Institute for Public Policy, Arizona State University, 2008
This brief, the third issue in the "Criminal Justice Issues for Arizona" series, reveals that Pinal County's specialized court for domestic-violence cases offers some promising results for dealing with this common and complex offense. This report contains an analysis of data collected in the Pinal County Domestic Violence Database, which…
Descriptors: Case Records, Family Violence, Courts, Criminals
Peer reviewedKleck, Gary – American Sociological Review, 1981
Reevaluation of published research on racial bias in criminal sentencing, and data on execution rates (1930-67) and death sentencing rates (1967-78), contradict a hypothesis of overt discrimination against Black defendants. One possible explanation of relatively lenient sentencing of Black defendants is the devalued status of Black crime victims.…
Descriptors: Blacks, Capital Punishment, Courts, Criminals
Strom, Kevin J.; Smith, Steven K.; Snyder, Howard N. – 1998
This report provides statistics about juveniles in the criminal justice system, whether handled as adults in criminal courts or handled in juvenile courts. In the 75 largest U.S. counties, juveniles transferred to criminal courts represented about 1% of all felony defendants. Two thirds of juveniles transferred to criminal court were charged with…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Courts, Delinquency, Juvenile Justice
Department of Justice, Washington, DC. Bureau of Justice Statistics. – 1988
This report on crime and justice aims to present statistical information in a format that can be easily understood by a nontechnical audience. It uses graphics and a nontechnical format to bring together data from the Bureau of Justice Statistics, the Federal Bureau of Investigation Uniform Crime Reports, the Bureau of the Census, the National…
Descriptors: Correctional Institutions, Costs, Courts, Crime
California State Dept. of Justice, Sacramento. Bureau of Criminal Statistics and Special Services. – 1987
This document provides an annual overview of the crime of homicide and its victims, information on persons arrested for murder, and the system's response by type of disposition and sentence given. These topics are discussed and illustrated with 5 data tables and 43 graphs: (1) willful homicide crimes; (2) arrests for murder; (3) dispositions of…
Descriptors: Correctional Institutions, Courts, Crime, Criminals
Phillips, Frank M. – Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1928
This report contains statistics for 1926-27 of schools for delinquents. The institutions are of a reformatory nature, and receive inmates committed to their care by juvenile and other courts. Reports were received from 158 institutions out of 173 believed to exist. The number of instructors reported for the year is 1,488, of which number 582 are…
Descriptors: Illiteracy, Courts, Industrial Education, Delinquency
McConnell, Grant D., Ed.; Gendron, Jean-Denis, Ed. – 1993
The atlas offers a cartography of language functions, quantitatively measured in vitality rates, for Western Europe. The atlas has three parts: vitality by language; vitality by domain; and vitality by country. Eighty-three minority languages are covered. Domains considered include: global; religion; schools; mass media; administration; courts;…
Descriptors: Courts, Education, Foreign Countries, Geographic Distribution
Turner, Susan; Fain, Terry; MacDonald, John; Sehgal, Amber – RAND Corporation, 2007
California counties receiving funds from Juvenile Justice Crime Prevention Act (JJCPA) programs are required to report six outcome measures to the California State Legislature on an annual basis to measure the success of the program. These outcome measures are (1) successful completion of probation, (2) arrests, (3) probation violations, (4)…
Descriptors: Intervention, Crime, Crime Prevention, Program Implementation
Turner, Susan; Fain, Terry; Sehgal, Amber – RAND Corporation, 2005
In 2000, the California Legislature passed the Schiff-Cardenas Crime Prevention Act, which authorized funding for county juvenile justice programs and designated the Board of Corrections (BOC) as the administrator of funding. A 2001 Senate Bill extended the funding and changed the program's name to the Juvenile Justice Crime Prevention Act…
Descriptors: Intervention, Crime, Crime Prevention, Program Implementation
