Many schools across the United States have enacted zero-tolerance philosophy in response to perceived increases in violence and drugs in schools. It is believed that aggressive and unwavering punishment of many school infractions, including relatively…
Professionals in the domestic violence field looking to build individual or organizational data and evaluation capacity are often interested in learning about how others have used data to inform their work. As part of an…
Professionals in the domestic violence field looking to build individual or organizational data and evaluation capacity are often interested in learning about how others have used data to inform their work. As part of an…
The First National Summit on Trauma and the Courts: Creating a Community of Healing was held on August 5-6, 2015 at the Semi J. and Ruth W. Begun Center for Violence Prevention Research and Education,…
When Systems Collaborate (19 pages) provides case studies of three jurisdictions trying to coordinate information and services to youth with dual-status in both the juvenile justice and child welfare systems. The jurisdictions were selected based…
This is the final research brief in a series conducted as part of NCJJ’s work in the MacArthur Foundation’s Models for Change systems reform in the juvenile justice initiative. The research brief (8 pages) examines…
NCJJ and OJJDP recently introduced a Data Snapshot series to disseminate current research about youth in the juvenile justice system. Each one-page Snapshot focuses on a specific topic (e.g., juveniles in residential placement) and highlights…
Criminological Highlights is designed to provide an accessible look at some of the more interesting criminological research that is currently being published. Do punitive policies directed at disruptive students affect other students in the school? Is…
Criminological Highlights is designed to provide an accessible look at some of the more interesting criminological research that is currently being published. When members of the public say that they want harsh penalties for youths, what…
Criminological Highlights is designed to provide an accessible look at some of the more interesting criminological research that is currently being published. Does attending an ‘advantaged’ school affect all students equally? What kinds of drug treatment…
Criminological Highlights is designed to provide an accessible look at some of the more interesting criminological research that is currently being published. Does formal court processing of young offenders reduce recidivism? What factors influence members of…
This StateScan publication is the 4th in a series that distills important knowledge from NCJJ’s new Juvenile Justice Geography, Policy, Practice & Statistics website. The author, Andrew Wachter, organizes results from a 51-jurisdiction survey that…