Statistics on Juveniles as Victims & Offenders Click to View Law Enforcement Information Click to View Internet Crime Statistics New Information: October 12 5:32 PM ET, Sexual Abuse in Girls Leads to Later Substance Abuse, by Suzanne Rostler NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Young girls who are forced to have sex are three times more likely to develop psychiatric disorders or abuse alcohol and drugs in adulthood, than girls who are not sexually abused, researchers report. Read more! Young juveniles are most likely to be sexually assaulted by persons under age 18 - older juveniles by adults. Source: Author's analysis of the FBI's "National Incident-Based Reporting System master files" for the years 1991-1996 (machine-readable date files). Resources for Statistics of Juvenile Justice Juveniles are more likely to be the victim of a violent crime in the hour after the end of the school day than at any other hour of the day. In one-third of all sexual assaults reported to law enforcement agencies, the victim was under age 12. One in four of these young victims was male. The offender was a stranger to the victim in just 4% of these crimes. Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention "Statistical Briefing Book of Juveniles" Sexual assaults of juveniles peak at 8 a.m., noon, and 3 p.m.; assaults of older juveniles also peak in the late evening hours. In contrast, although sexual assaults of adults remain fairly constant through the afternoon, the number of incidents begins to increase at 7 p.m. and continues to rise until its peak at 2 a.m. Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention "Juvenile Justice Facts and Figures" Part of the Crimes Against Children series, this OJJDP Bulletin analyses 1997 NIBRS data (collected from 12 States) for such crimes as assault, kidnaping, robbery, and sexual assault. The Bulletin finds that juveniles make up 12 percent of all crime victims known to police, including 71 percent of all sex crime victims and 38 percent of all kidnaping victims. Simple assault is the most commonly reported crime against juveniles. Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention "Violence & Victimization Summaries" In the US, one of the leading causes of death for juveniles is homicide. In 1997, the National Center for Health Statistics listed homicide as the fourth leading cause of death for children ages 1 to 4, third for youth ages 5 to 14, and second for persons ages 15 to 24. National Crime Report - Juvenile Victims You must obtain a user name and password to access the National Data Analysis System. National Data Analysis System Presents detailed data on major variables measured by the National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS). These variables are --crimes of violence (rape, sexual assault, robbery, assault) and theft (pocket picking, purse snatching, burglary, theft, and motor vehicle theft), with data on victim characteristics (sex, age, race, ethnicity, marital status, education, income, and residence); crime characteristics (time and place of occurrence, distance from home, weapon use, self-protection, injury, medical care, economic loss, and time lost from work);victim-offender relationship; victims' perceptions of substance use by offenders and of offender characteristics (age, race, and sex);whether crimes were reported to the police and reasons why; and police response time for reported crimes. US Deptment of Justice - Bureau of Statistics, Crime and Victims Statistics This link gives you the estimated percent distribution of violent victimizations by multiple offenders, by type of crime and perceived age of offenders, United States, 1998 Estimated percent distribution of violent victimizations by multiple offenders, by type of crime and perceived race of offenders, United States, 1998 Sourcebook of Criminal Justice Statistics - Bureau of Justice Statistics More Resources for Statistics of Juvenile Justice US Department of Health and Human Services - Administration for Children and Families, ACF Press Room - HHS Reports New Child Abuse and Neglect Statistics Children Found to be Substantiated or Indicated Victims of Child Abuse and Neglect 1997 by State The Scope and Problem of Child Maltreatment Perpetrators by Relationship to Child Victims 1997 Current Trends in Child Abuse Reporting and Fatalities: The Results of the 1997 Annual Fifty State Survey Child Abuse and Neglect Clearinghouse - Child Abuse and Neglect National Statistics