White paper on crime 2012 Part3/Chapter4/1

Chapter 4 Trends with Repeat Juvenile Delinquents/Offenders

1 Repeat delinquencies by juveniles

Fig. 3-4-1 shows the number of repeat juvenile delinquents (refers to juveniles who had previously been cleared (guided by the police) for delinquencies other than Road Traffic Act violations and who were then cleared again; hereinafter the same in this subsection) cleared for non-traffic penal code offenses and the rate of repeat juvenile delinquents (refers to the percentage of repeat juvenile delinquents to total juveniles cleared for non-traffic penal code offenses; hereinafter the same in this subsection) over the last 20 years. The number of repeat juvenile delinquents decreased every year from 2004 through to 2011, whereas the rate of repeat juvenile delinquents rose every year after reaching a minimum in 1997.

Fig. 3-4-1 Number of juveniles cleared for non-traffic penal code offenses and rate of repeat juvenile delinquents (1992-2011)