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Juveniles in Residential Placement, 2011
This report provides data on young people placed in juvenile residential facilities in the United States. The report features information on offense profiles, demographics, and length of stay for young people in residential placement.
Juvenile Mentoring Program: 1998 Report to Congress
This 1998 Report to Congress describes the initial stages of OJJDP's ongoing evaluation of the 93 projects funded under the Juvenile Mentoring Program and includes its preliminary findings.
Juveniles in Residential Placement, 2010
This bulletin, developed by the Department of Justice, Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, provides data from the Census of Juveniles in Residential Placement (CJRP), a biennial survey of juvenile residential facilities that presents a detailed picture of the youth in custody across the country.
Juvenile Residential Facility Census, 2012: Selected Findings
This bulletin provides findings from the 2012 Juvenile Residential Facility Census (PDF, 16 pages), which collects information about facilities where juvenile offenders are held, including facility characteristics and the number of youth who were injured or died in custody during the past 12 months.
Make a Friend-Be a Peer Mentor
This Bulletin explains to youth how peer mentoring works, how to become a peer mentor, and how to create and maintain a strong peer mentor network.
Juvenile Justice Bulletin: Juvenile Transfer Laws
This bulletin provides an overview of research on the deterrent effects of transferring youth from juvenile to criminal courts, focusing on large-scale comprehensive OJJDP-funded studies on the effect of transfer laws on recidivism.
Juvenile Offenders and Victims: 2014 National Report
Developed for OJJDP by the National Center for Juvenile Justice, this report presents data and research on juvenile offending and victimization and explores the juvenile justice system’s response. It includes comprehensive information on juvenile population characteristics, juvenile victims, juvenile offenders, juvenile justice system structure and process, law enforcement and juvenile crime, juvenile offenders in court, and juvenile offenders in corrections.
Mentoring-A Proven Delinquency Prevention Strategy
This Bulletin discusses federally-supported mentoring intiatives, such as Big Brothers/Big Sisters, and how mentoring has changed in response to evaluations.
Mobilizing Communities To Prevent Juvenile Crime
This Bulletin provides promising prevention approaches, summarizes the risk factors challenging youth, features effective prevention programs supported by OJJDP, and describes planning, training, and technical assistance opportunities available through OJJDP's Community Prevention Grants.
National Girls Institute
Created by the Department of Justice’s Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, the National Girls Institute website functions as a resource to help meet the needs of agencies and organizations that serve at-risk and delinquent girls, as well as the girls themselves. Users can request training and technical assistance and access information about best practices, tools, research, and events.
National Juvenile Justice Evaluation Center
In conjunction with the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, JRSA began developing the National Juvenile Justice Evaluation Center (NJJEC) in 2010. This project follows an earlier JRSA project funded by OJJDP, which concluded in 2005, called the Juvenile Justice Evaluation Center. The purpose of NJJEC is to improve the evaluation capacity of states, tribes, and local communities and facilitate the use of evidence-based programs and practices in juvenile justice.
National Partnership for Juvenile Services Launches Online Journal
Developed by the National Partnership for Juvenile Services, and funded by OJJDP, the new Journal of Applied Juvenile Justice Services provides information to juvenile justice practitioners and researchers on various topics in juvenile justice.
National Gang Center
National Gang Center assists policymakers, practitioners, and researchers in the development and implementation of effective, community-based gang prevention, intervention, and suppression strategies
National Training and Technical Assistance Center - Juvenile Justice Programs
This resource provides technical assistance to practitioners to help them adopt evidence-based practices to address juvenile justice and juvenile delinquency issues.
New Reports Highlight OJJDP’s Tribal Green Reentry Grantee Experiences
RTI International and American Indian Development Associates have released a series of reports highlighting the grant experiences of three tribal communities that participated in OJJDP’s Tribal Juvenile Detention and Reentry Green Demonstration (“Green Reentry”) program:
- Cross-Site Evaluation of the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Tribal Green Reentry Program” summarizes the implementation experiences and program impact of the three demonstration grantees.
- “Incorporating Green Programming in Juvenile Justice Settings” discusses considerations relevant to programs seeking to incorporate green activities in juvenile justice settings.
- “Parent and Family Involvement with Youth in the Tribal Juvenile Justice System” examines the role of family members in youth well-being and presents strategies for encouraging positive parent and family involvement.
- “Experiences with Incorporating Culture into Tribal Green Reentry Programs” focuses on elder perspectives on Green Reentry programs and provides recommendations for strengthening cultural programming efforts.
National Youth Gang Survey Analysis
This annual survey of law enforcement agencies is developed and implemented by the National Gang Center and is used to assess the extent of gang problems by measuring the presence, characteristics, and behaviors of local gangs in jurisdictions throughout the country.
OJJDP Annual Report 2012: How OJJDP Is Working for Youth Justice and Safety
This report provides an overview of the resources, research and evaluation findings, and training and technical assistance provided by OJJDP. It also describes the nearly $268 million in grants awarded by OJJDP to reduce children’s exposure to violence, intervene in and prevent girls’ delinquency, support mentoring activities and promote family engagement, address the “school to prison” pipeline, facilitate reentry efforts, prevent bullying, improve conditions for tribal youth, fight child exploitation, strengthen the juvenile justice system, and enhance public safety.
OJJDP’s Model Programs Guide Adds Three Literature Reviews
OJJDP's Model Programs Guide, an online resource of evidence-based juvenile justice and youth prevention, intervention, and reentry programs, has added three new literature reviews that address risk/need assessments for youth, disproportionate minority contact, and family therapy.
OJJDP Releases Fact Sheet on Delinquency Cases in Juvenile Courts
OJJDP has released a fact sheet on delinquency cases derived from data presented in the report, Juvenile Court Statistics 2011:
- Delinquency Cases in Juvenile Court, 2011 (PDF, 4 pages): presents statistics on delinquency cases that courts with juvenile jurisdiction processed for public order, person, and property offenses and drug law violations between 1985 and 2011
OJJDP, MENTOR Launch National Mentoring Resource Center
OJJDP and MENTOR: The National Mentoring Partnership have launched the National Mentoring Resource Center, which provides mentoring tools and information, program and training materials, and technical assistance, particularly relating to delinquency prevention, victimization, and juvenile justice system involvement, to help local programs and practitioners improve the quality and effectiveness of their mentoring efforts.
OJJDP Releases Fact Sheet on Delinquency Cases in Criminal Courts
OJJDP has released a fact sheet on delinquency cases derived from data presented in the report, Juvenile Court Statistics 2011:
- Delinquency Cases Waived to Criminal Court, 2011 (PDF, 4 pages): presents statistics on petitioned delinquency cases waived to criminal court between 1985 and 2011
OJJDP's Pathways to Desistance Bulletins Now Available in E-Book Format
Bulletins from OJJDP’s Pathways to Desistance series are now available in EPUB and MOBI formats. The bulletins present findings from a study of more than 1,300 adolescent offenders over seven years.
Predictors of Youth Violence
This Juvenile Justice Bulletin from the OJJDP gives a comprehensive discussion of risk factors for youth violence, including gang membership, across the domains of individual, family, school, peer, and community factors. The Bulletin also gives a brief overview of a study that looked at predictors of violent or serious delinquency by age group and includes a discussion of what the results mean for implementing interventions and appropriately using the identified risk factors.
OJJDP News @ a Glance, January/February 2015
This issue of OJJDP News @ a Glance includes an article and video message from OJJDP Administrator, Robert L. Listenbee, highlighting the new OJJDP-MENTOR National Mentoring Resource Center and the impact of evidence-based mentoring practices. Additional juvenile-justice related events and resources are also featured.
OJJDP Updates Statistical Briefing Book
OJJDP has updated its Statistical Briefing Book (SBB), which offers online access to statistics on a variety of juvenile justice topics. Changes to the SBB include updates to: