Inmate Admissions

Youthful (17 or under at offense) Admissions

Category	FY 2011-12
Youthful Admissions	1,365	100.0%
Gender
Male	1,322	96.9%
Female	43	3.2%
Race
White	438	32.1%
Black	868	63.6%
Other	59	4.3%
Age at Offense
12 or younger	11	0.8%
13	7	0.5%
14	40	2.9%
15	140	10.3%
16	428	31.4%
17	739	54.1%
Prior DC Prison Commitments
0	1,050	76.9%
1	286	21.0%
2	23	1.6%
3	2	0.2%
4	4	0.3%

Note: Due to rounding, percentages may not add up to 100%.

Type of Offense
* 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.

Youthful (17 or under) Admissions Over Five Fiscal Years

Youthful (17 or under) Admissions by Offense Type for FY 2011-12
Type of Offense	Number	Percent	Average Sentence Length in Years*	Average Age at Admission
Murder, Manslaughter	95	7.0%	22.0	16.6
Sexual offenses	64	4.7%	10.3	16.5
Robbery	333	24.4%	6.4	16.8
Violent Personal offenses	186	13.6%	4.9	16.8
Burglary	427	31.3%	4.8	17.1
Theft/Forgery/Fraud	72	5.3%	3.0	17.1
Drug offenses	73	5.3%	2.8	17.3
Weapons	52	3.8%	3.6	17.1
Other	63	4.6%	6.7	15.9
* Sentence lengths of 50 years or longer, life, and death are coded as 50 years for calculations of averages.