Juvenile Justice

These updates to the Statistical Briefing Book include information on juveniles in residential placement, such as a new data snapshot summarizing trends, state-level FAQs on juveniles in corrections, and national crosstabs, state profiles, and state comparisons.

This article provides an overview of the varying types of drug courts. 

This guide, developed by the National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges, describes the objectives outlined in OJJDP’s Juvenile Drug Treatment Guidelines and provides suggested short-term and long-term actions related to each objective.

These reports, released by the Urban Institute’s Justice Policy Center, are based on the evaluation of OJJDP’s Juvenile Justice Reform and Reinvestment Initiative.

This literature review summarizes research on intellectual and developmental disabilities of youths who are at risk of or who have come into contact with the juvenile justice system.

This report developed by the National Child Traumatic Stress Network, details the results of a national survey of probation officers on their roles, what they know about trauma and youth, and what they want to learn about trauma and trauma-informed practices. 

This issue brief, developed by the National Evaluation and Technical Assistance Center for the Education of Children and Youth Who Are Neglected, Delinquent, or At Risk, addresses features of juvenile detention facilities as well as the characteristics of youth who find themselves in detention centers.

This report, released by the National Center for Juvenile Justice, describes delinquency cases and petitioned status offense cases handled between 2005 and 2014 by U.S. courts with juvenile jurisdiction.