
Juvenile referrals to justice system by gender in Alaska
Juvenile referrals to justice system by gender
Definitions:
Percent of referrals to Alaska's justice system during the fiscal year for juveniles aged 10 to 17 by gender. Referrals reported here are duplicate counts, which means they might include multiple referrals of the same juvenile. Duplicated counts show the overall level of reported juvenile crime.
This indicator is stratified by region.
Gender is reported by the juvenile.
Data Source:
Alaska Department of Family and Community Services, Division of Juvenile Justice
http://dhss.alaska.gov/djj/Pages/GeneralInfo/Stats.aspx Updated June 2022.
Footnotes:
Five years of data were combined to minimize the unreliability of measurement due to the small number of actual events. The reported values are a moving average across five years. For example, we report the average value across the years 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, and 2010.