Juvenile Offenders and Victims: 2006 National Report Juvenile Offenders and Victims: 2006 National Report Graphs from Chapter 1: Juvenile Population Characteristics Copyright 2006 National Center for Juvenile Justice 3700 S. Water Street, Suite 200 Pittsburgh, PA Suggested Citation: Snyder, Howard N., and Sickmund, Melissa Juvenile Offenders and Victims: 2006 National Report. Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Justice Programs, Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention. More information is available online. The full report, report chapters, and data files for the graphs can be downloaded from Additional statistics are available from OJJDP's Statistical Briefing Book, located at:

Juvenile Offenders and Victims: 2006 National Report Proportion of non-Hispanic white youth in the juvenile population (ages 0–17) in 2002

Juvenile Offenders and Victims: 2006 National Report Proportion of non-Hispanic black youth in the juvenile population (ages 0–17) in 2002

Juvenile Offenders and Victims: 2006 National Report Proportion of non-Hispanic American Indian youth in the juvenile population (ages 0–17) in 2002

Juvenile Offenders and Victims: 2006 National Report Proportion of non-Hispanic Asian youth in the juvenile population (ages 0–17) in 2002

Juvenile Offenders and Victims: 2006 National Report Proportion of Hispanic youth in the juvenile population (ages 0–17) in 2002

Juvenile Offenders and Victims: 2006 National Report Change in the juvenile population (ages 0–17) between 1990 and 2002

Juvenile Offenders and Victims: 2006 National Report Although the proportion of juveniles living below the poverty level has declined substantially from its 1993 peak, it is still considerably larger than that of older Americans

Juvenile Offenders and Victims: 2006 National Report In 2002, black juveniles and Hispanic juveniles were more than 3 times as likely to live in poverty as non-Hispanic white juveniles

Juvenile Offenders and Victims: 2006 National Report Proportion of juveniles (ages 0–17) living in poverty in 2002

Juvenile Offenders and Victims: 2006 National Report The proportion of children under age 18 living in two-parent households declined between 1970 and 2002, regardless of race

Juvenile Offenders and Victims: 2006 National Report Black children were the least likely to live with both parents— regardless of the marital status of the parents

Juvenile Offenders and Victims: 2006 National Report Following a peak in 1991, the birth rate for females ages 15–17 fell consistently so that by 2002, the rate was 40% below its 1970 level

Juvenile Offenders and Victims: 2006 National Report The annual birth rate for females ages 15–19 declined substantially between 1950 and 2000, while the proportion of these births that were to unmarried women increased

Juvenile Offenders and Victims: 2006 National Report The annual proportion of students in grades 10–12 who left school without completing a high school program was lower in the 1990s than in the 1970s

Juvenile Offenders and Victims: 2006 National Report Dropout rates for white youth have remained below the rates for other racial/ethnic groups