National Juvenile Court Data Archive

The National Juvenile Court Data Archive’s goal is to maintain and expand the current program and continue providing detailed information on juvenile court case processing of delinquency and status offense cases to assist research and policymaking efforts. This supplemental award provides funds for year two of a planned three-year grant period.

The Archive will continue to pursue three general objectives: juvenile court data collection and processing, juvenile court data use and dissemination, and juvenile court case data quality improvement and technical assistance.

Juvenile court data collection and processing involves extracting research data files from administrative data sets, creating standardized data files, producing national estimates, and documenting and preserving data.

Juvenile court data use and dissemination are achieved through the Juvenile Court Statistics reports, preparing data for OJJDP’s Statistical Briefing Book, maintaining the Archive’s website that facilitates researchers’ use of Archive files, and responding to information requests.

Juvenile court case data quality improvement and technical assistance are addressed through efforts to expand the sample of reporting courts, monitor data quality, provide technical assistance to state and local agencies to help them expand/improve their information systems and information sharing capabilities, and improve the national estimates.

The project also advances two additional objectives: improve data collection and analysis of Hispanic/Latino youth involved in the juvenile justice system, and improve analyses for girls involved in the juvenile justice system. These two objectives focus on subpopulations of youth and involve aspects of each of the other three objectives—data collection and processing, data use and dissemination, and data improvement.

This project contains a research and/or development component, as defined in applicable law. This program furthers the Department's mission by providing grants and cooperative agreements for research and evaluation activities to organizations that OJJDP designates. NCA/NCF

The National Juvenile Court Data Archive’s goal is to maintain and expand the current program and continue providing detailed information on juvenile court case processing of delinquency and status offense cases to assist research and policymaking efforts. The most recent national estimates are based on data from more than 2,400 courts with jurisdiction over 84% of the juvenile population. This proposal requests funds and describes activities for year 3 of the 3-year grant. The Archive will continue to pursue three general objectives: juvenile court data collection and processing, juvenile court data use and dissemination, and juvenile court case data quality improvement and technical assistance. Juvenile court data collection and processing involves extracting research data files from administrative data sets, creating standardized data files, producing national estimates, and documenting and preserving data. Juvenile court data use and dissemination are achieved through the Juvenile Court Statistics reports, preparing data for OJJDP’s Statistical Briefing Book, maintaining the Archive’s website that facilitates researchers’ use of Archive files, and responding to information requests. Juvenile court case data quality improvement and technical assistance are addressed through efforts to expand the sample of reporting courts, monitor data quality, provide technical assistance to state and local agencies to help them expand/improve their information systems and information sharing capabilities, and improve the national estimates.

Note: This project contains a research and/or development component, as defined in applicable law, and complies with Part 200 Uniform Requirements- 2 CFR 200.210(a)(14).

NCA/NCF