Delinquency Dispositions CY 2014 - Current Statewide as Reported by the Juvenile Court Judges' Commission
data.pa.gov | Last Updated 17 Feb 2022There were 22,023 delinquency dispositions in Pennsylvania during 2018. This represents a 1.3% decrease from 2017 and a 13.4% decrease since 2014. Allegheny County reported a decrease of 17.0% from 2017 to 2018, and Philadelphia County reported a 5.9% decrease for this time period. One-third of the total dispositions occurred in the four jurisdictions reporting more than 1,000 dispositions; these jurisdictions include Philadelphia, Allegheny, York, and Delaware. This dataset is contained within the Juvenile Court Judges' Commissions 2018 Juvenile Court Annual Report; this report provides an overview of Pennsylvania juvenile court statistics, during 2018 and preceding years, to measure and quantify work across the state by juvenile justice professionals. In Pennsylvania, juvenile court jurisdiction extends over individuals who have been alleged to have committed a delinquent act, as defined by 42. Pa. C. S. § 6301 et seq., on or after their tenth birthday and prior to reaching eighteen years of age. Juvenile court supervision can extend until the individual is twenty-one years of age if the individual is currently under supervision. Age for purposes of this section was calculated from the juvenile’s date of birth to the date of the offense in the written allegation.
This dataset has the following 5 columns:
Column Name | API Column Name | Data Type | Description | Sample Values |
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Year | year | text | Calendar Year of the Program. | 2014 2016 2015 2017 2018 view top 100 |
County | county | text | Identifies the county owning the record. Pennsylvania statewide is for all 67 counties, Allegheny and Philadelphia are individually separated out and then remaining counties are linked together. | Allegheny Philadelphia Remaining Counties PA State Total view top 100 |
Disposition | disposition | number | Primary record for the disposition (determination of findings) of an allegation. | 3901 2207 22023 2523 2750 view top 100 |
Juvenile Population | juvenile_population | number | The population of youth, ages 10 to 17, residing in Pennsylvania as of July 1st for the identified year, compiled by the Center for Disease Control and Prevention. | 1226713 1239195 1246126 view top 100 |
State Rate | state_rate | number | The total dispositions divided by the juvenile population for the identified year. | 0.018 0.019 0.02 view top 100 |