Dept. of Justice

This report provides a summary of the experiences and recommendations for reform offered during four listening sessions conducted by OJJDP, the Campaign for Youth Justice, and the Education Development Center by families and youth with direct experience with the juvenile justice system at local and state levels.

View the video that includes the highlights from the week-long 2011 National Intertribal Youth Summit (NIYS), held last July in Santa Fe, New Mexico. This event was attended by more than 160 youth representing nearly 50 tribes.

The National Center for Juvenile Justice published this report, which profiles more than 1.5 million delinquency cases and more than 140,000 status offense cases processed by courts with juvenile jurisdiction in 2009 and tracks trends in delinquency and petitioned status offense cases over several decades.

This report presents data on nonfatal intimate partner violence among households in the United States from 1993 to 2010, reflecting trends by sex and examining intimate partner violence against women by the victim’s age, race, marital status, and household composition. .

This series of graphic novels titled, “END SILENCE: Youth Speaking Up about Sexual Abuse in Custody,” help youth in juvenile justice settings identify, address, and respond to  sexual abuse perpetrated by staff or other youth.

This report makes recommendations to the President, Congress, and OJJDP on four areas of major concern to the juvenile justice community: evidence-based youth justice practices, youth engagement, youth justice and schools, and youth justice and disproportionate minority contact. These recommendations were formed through research and reviews by FACJJ’s expert subcommittees and through feedback from state advisory groups, state juvenile justice specialists, and state disproportionate minority contact coordinators.

This fact sheet provides an overview of OJJDP’s efforts to reduce disproportionate minority contact in juvenile justice systems.

This bulletin outlines some of the consequences of underage drinking including the effect that drinking can have on adolescent brain development. As outlined in the bulletin, studies show that continued use of alcohol and other drugs may hinder youth’s advancement to more complex stages of thinking and social interaction.

The National Task Force on Children Exposed to Violence has released a final report which includes 56 recommendations underscoring the importance of identifying children who are victims of, or witnesses to, violence, and providing services to help them heal.

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