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Juvenile Justice Boards & Councils focus on crime prevention in their local communities.
Review DJJ forms by office or by subject. Forms are available for download in multiple file formats.
Juvenile Probation Officers (JPO) assess the needs and risks of youth entering the juvenile justice system.
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The Civil Citation Dashboard contains data on Florida’s use of Civil Citation as an alternative to arrest for 1st time misdemeanants.
The Juvenile Justice System Improvement Project (JJSIP) is a national initiative to reform the juvenile justice system by translating "what works" into everyday practice and policy.
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Research
The Comprehensive Accountability Report is used by the Florida Department of Juvenile Justice to report the outputs and outcomes of juvenile justice programs in Florida.
The DJJ Monthly Accountability Scorecard is a tracking mechanism that provides data on key indicators of the agency’s performance.
The Florida Department of Juvenile Justice's "electronic release" of data on delinquency arrests and dispositions, the Delinquency Profile, examines Florida's juvenile justice system at several points of the juvenile justice continuum. The Profile covers a five-year period, ending in the most recent fiscal year. In addition to statewide figures, the Profile makes it possible to access data broken down by judicial circuit and county level via an interactive web-based format. Data is presented in both tabular and graphic format, by offense type, race, age and sex.
The Florida Department of Juvenile Justice's "electronic release" of data on Civil Citation, the Civil Citation Dashboard, examines Florida's use of Civil Citation as an alternative to arrest for 1st time misdemeanants. The Dashboard makes it possible to access data broken down by judicial circuit, county level and law enforcement agency via an interactive web-based format. Data is presented in both tabular and graphic format, by offense type, race, age and sex. The Dashboard is updated monthly using data from the Juvenile Justice Information System (JJIS) and covers a “rolling” 12 month period. Please note that there is a one-month delay in reporting Civil Citation data to ensure adequate time for data entry and data integrity reviews.
The Department of Juvenile Justice monitors the number of youth and arrests for delinquent offenses that were identified as occurring on school grounds, a school bus (or bus stop) or at an official school event. This information is generally provided to the Department by law enforcement as part of the delinquency intake process and is recorded in the Department's Juvenile Justice Information System (JJIS). The Department's interactive Delinquency in Florida's Schools Dashboard allows you to examine delinquency in Florida's schools between FY2010-11 and FY2015-16.
The Disproportionate Minority Contact Benchmark Reports allows you to examine racial and ethnic disparities at the county level to determine whether Disproportionate Minority Contact issues are present within a given jurisdiction. Individual dashboards are available for the fiscal years from FY 2013-14 to FY 2015-16.
DMC-RED Information
This page is no longer updated. Access to updated information is available through the interactive dashboards created by the Department. Select the "Current" tab for links to those pages.
Florida's juvenile crime rate is down from 59 delinquency arrests per 1,000 juveniles during FY 2010-11 to 46 delinquency arrests for every 1,000 juveniles during FY 2012-13.
During FY 2012-13, the Department received 26,484 delinquency arrests where a felony was the most serious offense, down 17% from 31,891 felony arrests received during FY 2010-11.
Fewer youth and cases are being disposed by the court to a probation service.
Youth in Florida, both males and females, are committing less serious, violent offenses than in the past.
Last Updated: 1/16/14
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