Gender mix by facility type, 1997

Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, Working for Youth Justice and Safety

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Custody Data (1997-Present)

Q:	How many juvenile residential placement facilities held female offenders in 1997?
A:	Fewer than half (48%) of juvenile residential facilities held female offenders on the census date, October 29, 1997. Facilities housing only females on the census date accounted for 15% of all facilities.

Population gender mix	Total	Type of facility		Total		Type of facility
Population gender mix	Total	Public	Private	Total		Public		Private

Total	2,844	1,108	1,736	100	%	100	%	100	%
Male offenders only	1,476	475	1,001	52		43		58
Female offenders only	419	71	348	15		6		20
Male and female offenders	949	562	387	33		51		22

Notes: Facilities identified here as gender specific, may in fact, allow both sexes, but merely had no opposite-sex residents on the census day. The specific housing arrangements of facilities identified here as holding both sexes are not known. Male and female populations may be separated within a facility.

To protect the confidentiality of juvenile residents all published data from the Census of Juveniles in Residential Placement (CJRP) are rounded to the nearest multiple of three. Each cell is rounded independently, without consideration as to row or column totals. As a result, in many tables, the internal cells do not add to the marginal totals. Rates and percentages presented from CJRP are also based on rounded totals. More information on this rounding rule is available on the EZACJRP Web site.

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More than half (52%) of all juvenile residential facilities nationwide held only male offenders on October 29, 1997. Female-only facilities accounted for 15% of all facilities. The remaining facilities held both male and female offenders. A substantially larger proportion of public facilities (51%) than private facilities (22%) held both males and females. A greater proportion of private facilities (20%) than public facilities (6%) held only females on the census day.

Internet citation: OJJDP Statistical Briefing Book. Online. Available: http://www.ojjdp.gov/ojstatbb/corrections/qa08504.asp?qaDate=20010228. Released on February 28, 2001.

Adapted from Sickmund, M. (2000). Census of Juveniles in Residential Placement 1997. Pittsburgh, PA: National Center for Juvenile Justice.

Data Source: Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention. Census of Juveniles in Residential Placement 1997 [machine-readable data files]. Washington, D.C.: OJJDP.