General Characteristics of Admissions

Category	FY 2008-2009
Total Admissions	100,619	100.0%
Gender
Males	74,960	74.5%
Females	25,659	25.5%
Race
White	61,470	61.1%
Black	33,631	33.4%
Other	5,503	5.5%
Data Unavailable	15	0.0%
Age At Admission
17 & Under	786	0.8%
18-24	32,198	32.0%
25-34	29,830	29.6%
35-49	28,522	28.3%
50-59	7,355	7.3%
60+	1,928	1.9%
Prior DC Supervision Commitments
0	57,716	57.4%
1	21,251	21.1%
2	9,845	9.8%
3	5,167	5.1%
4+	6,640	6.6%

Type of Offense

Violent = 18,766, 18.6%; Property = 35,609, 35.4%; Drug = 31,584, 31.4%; Other = 14,614, 15.5%;

Data unavailable = 36
* One of the following conditions must occur for a crime to be defined as violent under this definition: actual physical harm or threat of physical harm; or a reasonable probability existed that individual criminal acts could have resulted in unintended physical harm or the threat of physical harm.

Admissions Compared Over Five Years

99,616 in 04-05; 103,387 in 05-06; 107,203 in 06-07; 107,861 in 07-08, 100,619 in 08-09;

Type of Offense	Number	Percent	Average Sentence Length in Years*	Average Age at Offense
Murder, Manslaughter	549	0.5%	7.3	29.4
Sexual offenses	1,534	1.5%	6.2	33.1
Robbery	2,875	2.9%	3.6	25.5
Violent Personal offenses	13,531	13.5%	2.5	32.9
Burglary	9,861	9.8%	2.6	26.8
Theft/Forgery/Fraud	25,748	25.6%	2.3	31.9
Drug offenses	31,584	31.4%	2	31.8
Weapons	2,601	2.6%	2.1	29.1
Other	12,300	12.2%	1.8	34.8
Data Unavailable = 36 * Sentence lengths of 50 years or longer and life are coded as 50 years for calculations of averages.

2008-2009 Agency Statistics

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