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This report describes victim, perpetrator, and incident characteristics of sexual victimization of youth in juvenile facilities. Tables within this report accompany those from the full BJS report Sexual Victimization Reported by Youth in Juvenile Facilities, 2018, which provides national estimates of sexual victimization in juvenile facilities and identifies 12 high-rate and 14 low-rate facilities.
Findings are based on data from BJS?s 2018 National Survey of Youth in Custody (NSYC-3), which BJS conducted from March to December of 2018.
Victim, Perpetrator, and Incident Characteristics of Sexual Victimization of Youth in Juvenile Facilities, 2018 ? Statistical Tables (NCJ 255446) was written by BJS Statisticians Michael B. Field and Elizabeth Davis. The report, related documents, and additional information about BJS?s statistical publications and programs are available at www.bjs.gov.
The Bureau of Justice Statistics of the U.S. Department of Justice is the principal federal agency responsible for collecting, analyzing, and disseminating reliable statistics on crime and criminal justice in the United States. Jeffrey H. Anderson is the director.
For more information on BJS's publications, data collections, data analysis tools, and funding opportunities,?visit?BJS online.
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