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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 Justice Journal, Vol. VII, No. 1 (Mental Health Issue)
This issue discusses incarcerated youth with mental health issues, including challenges and solutions.
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.
Model Programs Guide
The Model Programs Guide (MPG) is designed to assist practitioners and communities in implementing evidence-based prevention and intervention programs that can make a difference in the lives of children and communities. The MPG database of evidence-based programs covers the entire continuum of youth services from prevention through sanctions to reentry. The MPG is a tool that offers a database of scientifically-proven programs that address a range of issues, including substance abuse, mental health, and education programs.
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 Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS)
The NCVS is the nation’s primary source for information on criminal victimization. Data is reported on the likelihood of victimization by certain types of assault and by different segments of the population such as women, the elderly, and racial groups.
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 Institute of Corrections
The National Institute of Corrections is a center of learning, innovation and leadership that shapes and advances effective correctional practice and public policy. They have various publications available about effective practices in corrections. Their activities contribute significantly toward the achievement of the following local, state and federal correctional goals:
- Effectively manage prisons, jails, and community corrections programs and facilities
- Enhance organizational and professional performance in corrections
- Community, staff, and offender safety
- Improve correctional practices through the exploration of trends and public policy issues
- Enhance services through improved organizational and staff effectiveness
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 Reentry Resource Center
Funded by the Second Chance Act of 2008, and launched by the Council of State Governments Justice Center in 2009, the National Reentry Resource Center provides education, training, and technical assistance to states, tribes, territories, local governments, service providers, non-profit organizations, and corrections institutions working on prisoner reentry.
National Institute of Justice
NIJ is the research, development and evaluation agency of the U.S. Department of Justice and is dedicated to researching crime control and justice issues. NIJ provides objective, independent, evidence-based knowledge and tools to meet the challenges of crime and justice, particularly at the state and local levels.
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
New Modules Developed for Sexual Assault Advocate/Counselor Training
OVCTTAC has developed three new modules for its online Sexual Assault Advocate/Counselor Training. This training is designed to teach advocates how to provide competent, effective crisis intervention services to victims and survivors of sexual assault.
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.
Native American Traditional Justice Practices
“Expert Working Group Report: Native American Traditional Justice Practices” (PDF, 35 pages) summarizes discussions and recommendations from a meeting about federal efforts to support the use of traditional Native American justice interventions to respond to criminal and delinquent behavior. The meeting was held in April 2013 and included 14 experts from multidisciplinary communities.
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 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.