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How many juveniles were waived/transferred to adult court?

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How many juveniles were waived/transferred to adult court?

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In 1992, the latest year that statistics are available, 11,700 delinquency cases were judicially waived to the adult criminal court. This represented 1.6 percent of all formally processed delinquency cases. Source: U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, “How Juveniles Get to Criminal Court,” (NCJ 150309) 1994.