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Federal Advisory Committee on Juvenile Justice Issues 2013 Report
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.
Federal Justice Statistics, 2010
This report describes the describes the annual activity, workloads, and outcomes associated with the federal criminal justice system from arrest to imprisonment, using data from the U.S. Marshals Service, Drug Enforcement Administration, Executive Office for U.S. Attorneys, Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts, and the Federal Bureau of Prisons.
From the Courthouse to the Schoolhouse: Making Successful Transitions
This bulletin describes effective approaches to reintegrating youth from juvenile justice system settings into the education mainstream and provides information about promising programs, practices, and resources.
Gender-Specific Programming
This resource page from the OJJDP provides a comprehensive summary about girls and delinquency and their involvement in the juvenile justice system. It also covers more in-depth information about how girls develop differently than boys, how this affects their experiences with the juvenile justice system, and why services need to be tailored to their needs. Evaluation of gender-specific programming has shown encouraging results in substance abuse and gang prevention programs for girls.
Gangs (Security Threat Groups)
The National Institute of Corrections has created a new web page on its site that features information on prison gangs, youth gangs, and gangs and reentry. Readers can learn more about gang-related slang words, clothing, and tattoos.
First Issue of Journal of Juvenile Justice Available
The Department of Justice’s Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention's first issue of the Journal of Juvenile Justice
Gang Resistance and Education Program
The G.R.E.A.T. Program is a school-based, law enforcement officer-instructed classroom curriculum. With prevention as its primary objective, the program is intended as an immunization against delinquency, youth violence, and gang membership.
Functional Impairment in Delinquent Youth
This report is part of the Beyond Detention series, which examines the findings of the Northwestern Juvenile Project, a large-scale longitudinal study of youth detained at the Cook County Juvenile Temporary Detention Center in Chicago, Illinois. This bulletin specifically analyzes the youths’ functional impairment three years after their release in school, work, home, and community settings.
Graphic Novels for Youth in Custody
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.
Grants 101: A Resource from Department of Justice
This resource is particularly useful for new applicants in navigating the challenges of a highly competitive application and grant award process. The Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) has posted a number of current solicitations on OJJDP's Funding Opportunities Web page. Additional funding opportunities from other OJP components may be found on OJP's Open Solicitations Web page.
Growth of Youth Gang Problems in the United States: 1970-98
An OJDDP report on the growth of youth gang problems in the United States between 1970-1998.
IACP Launches Online Training Series on Juvenile Interviewing and Interrogation
The International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP), in collaboration with OJJDP, developed a free, online training series about effective juvenile interviewing and interrogation techniques. The series target law enforcement and legally authorized juvenile justice professionals who interview or interrogate youth.
Highlights of the 2010 National Youth Gang Survey
The Department of Justice’s Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention has released “Highlights of the 2010 National Youth Gang Survey,” a fact sheet that discusses the prevalence of gangs and gang activity in the United States, as well as reasons for gang-member migration and external gang influences.
IACP Youth Focused Policing: Program Impact Tools
The International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP) has partnered with OJJDP to create free, online program impact tools that help law enforcement agencies evaluate the effectiveness of their youth programs. The tools include an eight-step guide that can assist in identifying issues related to youth, setting program goals, and measuring outcomes to determine the impact.
Juvenile Court Statistics 2009
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.
Implementation of the Intensive Community-Based Aftercare Program
This Bulletin provides an overview of the Intensive Aftercare Program model and describes its implementation over the first 3 years by participating sites in Colorado, Nevada, New Jersey, and Virginia. The Bulletin also assesses the extent to which the implementation has been successful and identifies the factors that facilitate implementation and those that impede it.
Juvenile Correctional Education: A Time for Change
This bulletin discusses the latest and most effective practices in juvenile correctional education.
Intensive Aftercare for High-Risk Juveniles: A Community Care Model
This summary reports the interim results of OJJDP's research and development initiative to assess, test, and disseminate information on intensive aftercare program models that are theory driven and based on risk assessment.
Introduction to Community Collaborative Partnerships
Introduction to Community Collaborative Partnerships is an online training session from the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention's Online University that can help professionals and staff who work in programs for tribal youth learn how to establish and improve collaborative partnerships in native communities that support tribal youth programs.
Juvenile Arrests 2012
Drawn from data provided by local law enforcement agencies, this report includes an overview of arrests of young people (PDF, 12 pages) under 18 years old in the United States in 2012, as well as trends in the types of arrests, and the gender and race of arrested youth.
Improving Literacy Skills of Juvenile Detainees
This bulletin describes innovative, phonics-based programs that have proven successful in combating functional illiteracy and its adverse aftermath within our juvenile corrections system.
Juvenile Arrests 2011
Drawing from the data included in the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Crime in the United States report, Juvenile Arrests 2011 provides an overview of the extent and nature of juvenile crime. Highlights from this bulletin include an 11 percent drop in juvenile arrests and a 10 percent decrease in juvenile violent crime arrests.
Juvenile Justice Bulletin: Gang Prevention
This bulletin presents research on why youth join gangs and how a community can build gang prevention and intervention services.
Juvenile Mentoring Program: A Progress Review
This Bulletin lists the parameters under which the current 164 JUMP projects operate and describes the scope and methodology of the Juvenile Mentoring Program's ongoing national evaluation.
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.