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6-27. South Carolina Department of Juvenile Justice Juvenile Cases to the Solicitor by County: Fiscal Year 1997

                      TOTAL        VIOLENT & SERIOUS   PERCENT OF CASES
 COUNTY           JUVENILE CASES   JUVENILE CASES 1/   VIOLENT & SERIOUS

Abbeville 111 19 17.1% Aiken 990 62 6.3% Allendale 147 11 7.5% Anderson 1,272 80 6.3% Bamberg 154 17 11.0% Barnwell 169 22 13.0% Beaufort 383 67 17.5% Berkeley 1,197 110 9.2% Calhoun 39 6 15.4% Charleston 3,191 309 9.7% Cherokee 430 42 9.8% Chester 205 37 18.0% Chesterfield 195 23 11.8% Clarendon 222 28 12.6% Colleton 232 25 10.8% Darlington 529 80 15.1% Dillon 247 35 14.2% Dorchester 460 49 10.7% Edgefield 76 16 21.1% Fairfield 132 23 17.4% Florence 1,051 102 9.7% Georgetown 556 54 9.7% Greenville 1,969 245 12.4% Greenwood 728 101 13.9% Hampton 70 10 14.3% Horry 1,475 163 11.1% Jasper 257 52 20.2% Kershaw 361 36 10.0% Lancaster 681 41 6.0% Laurens 390 45 11.5% Lee 157 27 17.2% Lexington 1,221 110 9.0% McCormick 67 17 25.4% Marion 496 52 10.5% Marlboro 468 41 8.8% Newberry 116 22 19.0% Oconee 245 17 6.9% Orangeburg 972 67 6.9% Pickens 560 40 7.1% Richland 899 107 11.9% Saluda 118 12 10.2% Spartanburg 1,706 174 10.2% Sumter 618 71 11.5% Union 324 38 11.7% Williamsburg 278 37 13.3% York 1,526 140 9.2% SOUTH CAROLINA 27,690 2,882 10.4%
1/: Violent and serious offenses include: murder; criminal and sexual conduct first and second degree; assault and battery with intent to kill; kidnapping; voluntary manslaugher; armed robbery; arson first degree; burglary first and second degree; drug trafficking; and all additional offenses categorized in the S.C. Code of Laws as Acts Against Persons.

Source: S.C. Department of Juvenile Justice, January 1998.

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