Juvenile Justice System and Risk Factor Data - Illinois Criminal ...

RENEW is to create female-responsive programming for female probationers. In each RENEW
unit, specifically trained probation officers provide gender sensitive services to female
probationers. In addition to trained officers, RENEW also offers special judges to hear RENEW
units’ cases.
Data summary
Female arrests
Females accounted for 22 percent of all arrests statewide in 2007. Thirty-three percent of all
female arrests in 2007 were for offe nses against a pe rson compared t o 26 percen t of al
l male
arrests. However, th ere was no difference in property crim es by gender— 32 percent of female
arrests and 32 percent of male arre sts w ere for property offenses. Ta ble 18 depicts the type of
offenses for which fem ale and male youth in Illinois were arrested in 2007. Five percent of
female arrests were for stat us offenses, compared t o 2 percent of males.
Table 18
Numb er and percentage of male and female youth arres
ts
by offense category, 2007
Type of offense Male Female Total*
Number Percent of gender Number Percent of gender
Person 9,834 26% 3,478 33% 13,313
Property 12,182 32% 3,400 32% 15,584
Sex 320 0.9% 16 0.2% 337
Drug 5,575 15% 525 5% 6,101
Weapons 792 2% 103 1% 896
Status offense 787 2% 472 5% 1,259
Other 8,007 21% 2,562 24% 10,575
Total 37,497 100% 10,556 100% 48,065
Source: Authority’ s C HRI Ad Hoc datasets
* Totals include 12 youth arrests in which the sex of the youth was unknown
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