Trends in Juvenile Offending: What You Need to Know Methodology

Public o Air/Bus/Train Terminal o Bank/Savings and Loan o Bar/Nightclub o Church/Synagogue/Temple o Commercial/Office Building o Construction Site o Convenience Store o Department/Discount Store o Drug Store/Dr.'s Office/Hospital o Field/Woods o Government/Public Building o Grocery/Supermarket o Highway/Road/Alley o Hotel/Motel/etc. [...] o Lake/Waterway 3 o Liquor Store o Parking Lot/Garage o Rental Storage Facility o Restaurant o Service/Gas Station o Specialty Store (TV, Fur, etc.) o Abandoned/condemned structure o Amusement Park o Arena/stadium/fairgrounds/coliseum o ATM separate from bank o Auto dealership new/use o Camp/campground o Dock/wharf/freight/modal terminal o Farm facility o Gambling facility/casino/race track o Indu. [...] (1 = yes, 0 = no) o All female incident – indicates an incident is comprised entirely of female offenders o Total females in incident – indicates the number of females in an incident • Male offenders o Any male incident – indicates that an incident has at least one male offender o All male incident – indicates an incident is comprised entirely of male offenders o Total males in incident – indicate. [...] In sum, the following selection criteria were employed in the construction of the final dataset: • Removed incidents from the “possessions” region • Limited to incidents involving juveniles (adult only incidents were dropped) • Limited to incidents reported by agencies who submitted information each month for the entire period 6 SAMPLE LIMITATIONS Although NIBRS is the primary source of incident-b. [...] Because racial diversity tends to be higher in urban areas, it is thus possible that some of the demographic trends (e.g., the proportion of white offenders in the data), are in part the result of the geographic coverage of the NIBRS data.