Resource: Delinquency Cases in Juvenile Court, 2019

This fact sheet (PDF, 4 pages) presents national estimates of delinquency cases handled by juvenile courts in 2019 and analyzes caseload trends since 2005. In 2019, U.S. juvenile courts handled 722,600 delinquency cases involving youth charged with criminal law violations, 2 percent fewer than in 2018. Learn more.