This revised version of the Pennsylvania Juvenile Delinquency Benchbook is intended to serve as a practical tool for working judges, offering them convenient access to all the information they need to effectuate the underlying purposes…
Violent crime in the United States increased slightly between 2004 and 2005. After 10 years of declining crime, the rise in violence produced deep concern among elected officials and the public about a coming wave…
This Special Project Bulletin presents a case for measuring and reporting juvenile justice system performance outcomes and a field-tested strategy for collecting and reporting juvenile justice outcome measures. The performance measures presented in the Bulletin…
This is the final report on the process evaluation of the aftercare services program of the Pennsylvania Bureau of Juvenile Justice Services (BJJS), prepared by the National Center for Juvenile Justice (NCJJ) for the Pennsylvania…
One of the goals of Pennsylvania’s juvenile justice system is the ‘imposition of accountability’ for offenses committed. This White Paper takes the position that true accountability requires juvenile offenders to repair the harm caused by…
This is Chapter One of the Disproportionate Minority Contact Technical Assistance Manual, titled Identification and Monitoring. It presents the latest method for calculating and analyzing disproportionality, and discusses lessons learned about the power of data.…
This article reports juvenile death rate statistics from the 2004 Juvenile Residential Facility Census. Highlights: The overall death rate was 2.8 per 10,000 juveniles held. ‘Suicide was the most commonly reported cause of death in…
In this article, the author describes researchers’ efforts to use both experimental studies and meta-analyses as different ways to conduct program evaluation research. Download Publication
This is a set of slides from a presentation by Melissa Sickmund of the National Center for Juvenile Justice (NCJJ), at the 2006 National Institute of Justice conference. It highlights the findings about delinquency and…
‘Utilizing the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY97), this federally supported study provides criminal justice practitioners and policymakers with an overview of problem and law-violating behavior of juveniles and young adults. Key findings from the…
This is an executive summary of the process evaluation of the aftercare services program of the Pennsylvania Bureau of Juvenile Justice Services (BJJS), prepared by the National Center for Juvenile Justice (NCJJ) for the Pennsylvania…
This booklet provides instruction and guidance to local juvenile courts and probation departments on racial coding of juveniles involved in Pennsylvania’s juvenile justice system in conjunction with reporting juvenile delinquency dispositions to the Juvenile Court…