Juvenile Justice System and Risk Factor Data for Illinois: Annual Report

              Appendix H: Data tables section
The following data tables include county-level detail for several dozen juvenile justice data elements. When available, some data elements were also broken down by demographics, such as age, race, and gender. Data is provided by calendar year or Fiscal Year, depending upon the reporting agency. Whenever possible, both 1999 and 2004 data were included.
Many caveats have been mentioned throughout this report regarding the interpretation of the following data. The bullet points below describe additional issues that should be considered when reviewing the data tables.
• If there is a blank space where data should be, then data was not available. For example: Cook County detention data was not available at the time this report was being written. Therefore, all tables on detention data will have blank spaces next to Cook County.
• When zero (0) is listed for a particular data element, there are two interpretations
o There were zero instances of that particular event occurring.
o Zero instances of that particular event were reported.
For instance: A zero appears for Crawford County in the youth arrests table. This could be interpreted as Crawford County not having any youth arrests for 2004, or that Crawford County did not report any youth arrests to the Illinois State Police, but actually did arrest juveniles.
Whenever possible, rates were calculated by using the population most appropriate to the data element. For example, youth incarceration rates were calculated using the youth population 13-16 since a youth under the age of 13 cannot be incarcerated in an Illinois Youth Center, and youth 17 or older are considered adults in Illinois.
List of tables
Table 1: Number of youth served by DASA by race, FY04..........................................104
Table 2: Number of youth served by DASA by service type, FY04.............................106
Table 3: Estimated number of youth living in poverty, CY03......................................108
Table 4: Number of unemployed, FY99 – FY04...........................................................110
Table 5: Estimated median household income and educational attainment, CY00.......112
Table 6: Monthly average number of youth receiving temporary assistance to needy
families (TANF) Support, FY99 – FY04.........................................................114
Table 7: Number of inmates admitted to IDOC with children, FY99 – FY04..............116
Table 8: Number of reported domestic offense incidents, CY99 – CY04.....................118
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