2.0% 1.0% 0.0% 6 a.m. 5: LATINO Noon ARRESTEES: 6 p.m. Midnight FIGURE TIME OF DAY DISTRIBUTION BY AGE GROUP, ASSAULT OFFENSES76 10.0% 9.0%
Assault offenses
8.0%
Juvenile
6 a.m.
Juvenile Adult
7.0%
Adult
6.0% 5.0% 4.0% 3.0% 2.0% 1.0% 0.0% 6 a.m.
Noon
6 p.m.
Midnight
6 a.m.
NCJJ also conducted an analysis of assault offenses, finding that Latino youth are more likely than Latino adults to be arrested during traditional school hours. The spike during the noon hour is particularly intriguing (see Figure 5).77 The young people arrested may have been out of school, or these may have been school-related arrests. CALIFORNIA AND ARIZONA ARREST STATISTICS Two states that have significant Latino populations and disaggregate their arrest data by race and ethnicity are California and Arizona. Examining the arrest data for Latino youth in these two states provides another window into the characteristics of Latino youth offending. In both California and Arizona, one out of every five Latinos arrested is a youth (19%). In both states,
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