This project seeks to discover whether exclusionary discipline and later criminal justice system involvement are associated, and to determine whether race, sex, and homelessness are confounding factors.
This project seeks to discover whether exclusionary discipline and later criminal justice system involvement are associated, and to determine whether race, sex, and homelessness are confounding factors.
This report explored education outcomes of youth who were enrolled in ninth grade in a Washington state public school at any point during the 2004–05 academic year and who have had one or more truancies. The cohorts were followed for seven years through the 2011-12 academic year to allow for examination of both high school outcomes and postsecondary enrollment and outcomes.
Education and Workforce Outcomes of Juvenile Justice Participants in Washington state
Identifies key risk and protective factors associated with criminal justice involvement among youth transitioning to adulthood the year after aging out of foster care
A 2013 research brief examines the differences between juveniles tried as adults and those tried in juvenile court. The brief, written by the Washington State Statistical Analysis Center, reports data from 2007 through 2011, including differences between cases involving male and female offenders, offenders of different ages, and offenders of different races and ethnic groups.
The Bureau of Justice Statistics funded the report.
Out-of-Home Placement History of Juvenile Offenders Sentenced as Adults explores the question, “How many juvenile offenders sentenced as adults had previous contact with the foster care system?”
This 2014 briefing memo, by the Research and Data Analysis Division of the Washington Department of Social and Health Services, examines the 10-year out-of-home placement histories of a sampling of Washington State juvenile offenders sentenced as adults from 2008 through 2012.
Key findings:
Provides key findings from a survey on the occurrence of violent crimes in Washington schools, along with characteristics of those schools in relation to their crime rates, during the 2008-2009 school year
Provides data regarding race, ethnicity, age, and sentences of juveniles who were tried as adults and those who were tried in juvenile court
Explores how many juvenile offenders who were sentenced as adults had previous contact with the foster care system
Examines the impact of abuse and neglect on juvenile crime based on type of maltreatment, race, ethnicity, and gender
The Washington Statistical Analysis Center recently launched a new Interactive Mapping Tool that allows users to view criminal, poverty, education and health data.
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