This sixth issue of Criminological Highlights: Children and Youth is now available for download. This issue covers the following topics: When members of the public say that they want harsh penalties for youths, what do…
Research indicates that engaged parents are more likely to attend hearings, visit with their children and comply with their case plan, which increases likelihood of reunification. However, engaging parents in the dependency court process is…
NCJJ conducted a semi-structured survey of the state-level efforts to coordinate information and practice during the winter of 2014. This four page publication presents the results through the lens of how centralized or decentralized the…
Criminological Highlights is designed to provide an accessible look at some of the more interesting criminological research that is currently being published. Are members of minority groups who come into contact with the police more likely…
Criminological Highlights is designed to provide an accessible look at some of the more interesting criminological research that is currently being published. Should schools suspend or expel youths who are involved in fights? Is there evidence…
Criminological Highlights is designed to provide an accessible look at some of the more interesting criminological research that is currently being published. Do federal laws requiring the registration of juvenile sex offenders target the most dangerous…
This is the next in a new series intended to support NCJJ’s Juvenile Justice Geography, Policy, Practice & Statistics website development effort. This StateScan publication released for the project addresses the prevalence of risk assessment…
As part of the National Resource Bank for the MacArthur Foundation’s Models for Change initiative, NCJJ is responsible for documenting the progress and outcomes of reform efforts aligned with the initiative. The 2013 Washington Targeted…
This monograph (13 pages) describes the successful efforts of the Calcasieu Parish, Louisiana, Office of Juvenile Justice Services (OJJS) to implement a data-driven decision-making model during Models for Change. The monograph includes examples of key…
This report was assembled by NCJJ to report the progress of Models for Change Core States reform about 5 years into the demonstration site work in the first Models for Change core state, Pennsylvania. The…
This report consists of the most requested information on juveniles and the juvenile justice system in the U.S. Developed by the National Center for Juvenile Justice (NCJJ) for the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency…
Juvenile Court Statistics 2011 draws on data from the National Juvenile Court Data Archive (Archive) to profile more than 1.2 million delinquency cases and 116,000 petitioned status offense cases handled in 2011 by U.S. courts…