• The robbery arrest rate for black juveniles peaked in 1994 and then fell 61% by 2004. The rate for Asian juveniles peaked in 1996 and then fell 72% by 2004.
• The robbery arrest rate for white juveniles increased 79% between 1988 and 1995. Between the 1995 peak and 2004, the white rate fell 62%, to its lowest level since at least 1980.
• The robbery arrest rate for American Indian juveniles increased sharply in the late 1980s and early 1990s and, like the white rate, peaked in 1995. The rate then fell 77% between 1995 and 2004, to its lowest level in at least two decades.
• Juvenile robbery arrest rates grew for all racial groups between 2004 and 2008. Despite declines for most racial groups since 2008, rates in 2010 were above the 2004 level for black youth (15%) and American Indian youth (21%), about the same for white youth (up 1%) and below the 2004 level for Asian youth (26%).
• The black-white disparity in juvenile arrest rates for robbery peaked in 1984, when the black rate was nearly thirteen times higher than the white rate. The disparity declined through the late 1990s, when the black rate was seven times the white rate. However, by 2010, the black rate had increased to about ten times the white rate.

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Internet Citation: OJJDP Statistical Briefing Book. Online. Available:
http://www.ojjdp.gov/ojstatbb/crime/JAR_Display.asp?ID=qa05264. December 17, 2012.

Adapted from Puzzanchera, C. and Adams, B. (2012). Juvenile Arrests 2009. Washington, D.C.: Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention.

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