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Case processing characteristics of delinquency cases involving Hispanic youth, by offense

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Delinquency cases involving Hispanic youth

More than half (52.3%) of all delinquency cases involving Hispanic youth in 2021 were petitioned to court for formal processing; 1.0% of these petitioned cases were judicially waived to criminal court.