ABSTRACT
Including homicide rates by Census tract in national statistics for all the high-crime areas or high-welfare areas would not involve a large proportion of the Census tracts within the fifty largest cities. The primary indicators of crime problems involving children in poverty areas come from police records. They include: homicide victims by age and weapon, arrests for all offenses by age, and total violent crime in high-poverty Census tracts. The National Crime Victimization Survey is conducted twice annually by the Census Bureau for the Bureau of Justice Statistics, U. S. Department of Justice. Studies of the effects of welfare reform on juvenile delinquency and victimization need to look instead at the effects of reform on delinquency risk factors. The Federal Bureau of Investigation also reports 1994–1998 reductions in juvenile arrests for other violent crimes among the 60 percent of the population for which data are available in both years.
