The National Association of State Budget Officers (NASBO) conducted a study on state funding of juvenile justice services to track expenditures and trends nationally. The data below reflects solely juvenile justice expenditures, i.e., the costs incurred by youth charged in delinquency matters.

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In 1994, the total juvenile justice expenditures for Maine was $9,583,816. In 1998 funding totaled $16,498,490, a 42% increase from four years earlier. NASBO also reported funding in Post Residential Care however, Maine did not report spending money in this area.