Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention

Sixty-one members of the ICAC Task Force, funded by OJJDP, arrested 1,140 child predators from 41 states during Operation Broken Heart. 

OJJDP, BJA, and the National Gang Center developed “Why Youth Join Gangs,” an online video that features (a) gang researchers and practitioners providing their perspectives on gang joining and (b) youth sharing their gang experiences. The video highlights risk factors that may play a role in a youth’s decision to join a gang and behaviors that might be observed when interacting with youth at high risk of joining a gang. 

(UDET) Center is to create healthier and safer environments in States, local communities, and Federal entities engage in environmental prevention and enforcement practices that proactively and effectively limit youth access to alcohol and significantly reduce harmful consequences associated with alcohol use by underage youth

This resource provides technical assistance to DOJ's Tribal Youth Program.

This bulletin provides an overview of the Northwestern Juvenile Project, the first large-scale, prospective longitudinal study of drug, alcohol, and psychiatric disorders in a diverse sample of juvenile detainees.

This National Youth Gang Center bulletin gives a comprehensive discussion on the effects of gangs within communities and the lifelong effects of this problem. Factors taken into account include demographics of a community, and the impacts gang activity can have on the economic and physical climate of an affected area.  

Developed by the International Association of Chiefs of Police, with support from OJJDP, The Effects of Adolescent Development on Policing can help law enforcement officers who interact with youth to better understand adolescent development and to use this knowledge to tailor their responses to youth in an age- and

OJJDP and the National Archive of Criminal Justice Data have collaborated to release the Survey of Youth in Residential Placement (SYRP) 2003 which presents data about youth in the juvenile justice system, including details about their background, offense histories, alcohol and drug use, and more.

This bulletin examines suicidal thoughts and behaviors among detained youth, using data from the Northwestern Juvenile Project, a longitudinal study of youth detained at the Cook County Juvenile Temporary Detention Center in Chicago, IL.