Juvenile Justice

Juvenile Boot Camps, Mitch D. Meredith

Juvenile Death Penalty, Felisha S. Vincent

Preventive Detention of Juveniles, Nicole Thompson

Transfer of Juveniles to Adult Court, Bradley M. Wagnon

Full Text Resources on other sites

General Topics

Scott Menard's Short- and Long-Term Consequences of Adolescent Victimization

OJJDP's Community Assessment Centers [2 pp., PDF Format]

OJJDP's Costs and Benefits of Early Childhood Intervention [2 pp., PDF Format]

OJJDP's The 8% Solution [2pp., PDF Format]. Discusses the idea that by treating small percentage of the most serious juvenile offenders, juvenile crime rates can be reduced dramatically.

OJJDP's Guidelines for Screening Care Providers [2 pp., PDF Format].

OJJDP's Healthy Families America [2 pp., PDF Format].

OJJDP's Initiatives to Improve Child Welfare Outcomes [2 pp., PDF Format].

OJJDP's Innovative Information of Juvenile Residential Facilities [2 pp., PDF Format].

OJJDP's Interstate Compact on Juveniles [2 pp., PDF Format].

OJJDP's Introduction to the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention [2 pp., PDF Format].

OJJDP's Investing in Youth for a Safe Future [2 pp., PDF Format].

OJJDP's Juvenile Arson, 1997. [2 pp., PDF Format].

OJJDP's Juvenile Offenders in Residential Placement, 1997. [2 pp., PDF Format].

OJJDP's Juvenile Vandalism, 1997. [2 pp., PDF Format].

OJJDP's National Center on Child Fatality Review [2 pp., PDF Format.] See Also the NCCFR Website.

OJJDP's OJJDP Mental Health Initiatives [2 pp., PDF Format].

OJJDP's An Overview of the JAIBG Program. [2 pp., PDF Format]. Discusses the Juvenile Accountability Inceptive Block Grant Program, which is designed to promote greater accountability among juveniles who are involved in the juvenile justice system.

OJJDP's School Resource Officer Training Program. [2 pp. PDF Format].

OJJDP's Enabling Prosecutors To Address Drug, Gang, and Youth Violence. [12 pp., PDF Format]. Click Here for HTML.

OJJDP's Establishing and Maintaining Interagency Information Sharing. [16 pp., PDF Format]. Click Here for HTML.

OJJDP's Juvenile Justice: A Century of Change. [20 pp., PDF Format]. Click Here for HTML.

Juvenile Justice Journal. Reason To Hope: On the Front Lines With John Walsh. [HTML File].

Juvenile Justice Journal. A Safety Net for the Internet: Protecting Our Children. [HTML File].

Juvenile Justice Journal. Keeping Children Safe: Rhetoric and Reality. [HTML File].

OJJDP Juvenile Justice Reform Initiatives in the States, 1994 -- 1996. [Multipart HTML].

OJJDP. Law Enforcement and Juvenile Crime. [32 pp., PDF Format]. Click Here for HTML.

OJJDP. Race as a Factor in Juvenile Arrests. [8 pp., PDF Format]. Click Here for HTML.

Treatment, Rehabilitation and Punishment

OJJDP's Accountability Based Sanctions. [2 pp., PDF Format].

OJJDP's Curriculum for Training Educators of Youth in Confinement. [2 pp., PDF Format].

OJJDP's Disproportionate Minority Confinement. [Text File].

OJJDP's Juvenile Boot Camps: Lessons Learned [Text File].

OJJDP's Reintegrating Juvenile Offenders Into The Community: OJJDP's Intensive Community-Based Aftercare Demonstration Program. [4 pp., PDF Format].

OJJDP's Training of Staff in Juvenile Detention and Correctional Facilities. [2 pp., PDF Format].

OJJDP's Balanced and Restorative Justice Project (BARJ). [2 pp., PDF Format].

OJJDP's Conditions of Confinement: Juvenile Detention and Corrections Facilities (Research Report). [HTML Summary With Links to Full Text]

OJJDP's America's Children: Key National Indicators of Well-Being 2002. [143 pp., PDF Format]. Click Here for HTML.

Juvenile Justice Journal (Mental Health Issue). Suicide Prevention in Juvenile Facilities. [HTML File].

OJJDP's Construction, Operations, and Staff Training for Juvenile Confinement Facilities. [28 pp., PDF Format]. Click Here for HTML.

OJJDP's Desktop Guide to Good Juvenile Detention Practice. [237 pp., PDF Format].

OJJDP's Detention Diversion Advocacy: An Evaluation. [16 pp., PDF Format]. Click Here for HTML.

OJJDP's Intensive Aftercare for High-Risk Juveniles: Policies and Procedures. [41 pp., PDF Format].

OJJDP's Juvenile Probation: The Workhorse of the Juvenile Justice System. [6 pp., PDF Format].

OJJDP's Rethinking Juvenile Probation: The Desktop Guide to Good Juvenile Probation Practice Revisited. [8 pp., PDF Format].

OJJDP's Juveniles and the Death Penalty. [16 pp., PDF Format].

NIC/OJJDP's Training Programs for Juvenile Corrections Professionals [86 pp., PDF Format]

OJJDP's Aftercare Services [31 pp.]

Juvenile Courts and Prosecution

OJJDP's Enhancing Prosecutors’ Ability To Combat and Prevent Juvenile Crime in Their Jurisdictions. [20 pp., PDF Format]. Click Here for HTML.

OJJDP's Delinquency Cases in Juvenile Courts: 1998 [Latest Data], 1997, 1996, 1995, 1994, 1992. [Various Files by Year: 1992 is a Text File, all others are PDF Format].

OJJDP's Delinquency Cases Waived to Criminal Court, 1989--1998. [2 pp., PDF Format].

OJJDP's Detention in Delinquency Cases, 1989 -- 1998. [2 pp., PDF Format].

OJJDP's Drug Offense Cases in Juvenile Courts, 1989 -- 1998. [2 pp., PDF Format].

OJJDP's Due Process Advocacy. [2 pp., PDF Format].

OJJDP's A Guide to Implementing Teen Courts. [2 pp., PDF Format].

OJJDP's Juvenile Delinquency Probation Caseloads, 1989 -- 1998. [2 pp., PDF Format].

OJJDP's The National Juvenile Court Data Archive: Collecting Data Since 1927. [2 pp., PDF Format].

OJJDP's The National Youth Court Center. [2 pp., PDF Format].

OJJDP's Teen Courts in the United States: A Profile of Current Programs. [2 pp., PDF Format].

Bureau of Justice Assistance's Juvenile Drug Court: Strategies in Practice [82 pp., PDF Format].

Juvenile Justice Journal (Courts Issue). An Evolving Juvenile Court: On the Front Lines. {HTML File].

Juvenile Justice Journal (Courts Issue). The Juvenile Court at 100 Years: A Look Back. [HTML File].

Juvenile Justice Journal (Courts Issue). The Juvenile Court: Putting Research To Work for Prevention. [HTML File].

OJJDP's How Juveniles Get to Criminal Court. [6 pp., PDF Format].

OJJDP's Juvenile Drug Court Programs. [16 pp., PDF Format].

Cause and Prevention

OJJDP's Addressing the Problem of Juvenile Bullying. [2 pp., PDF Format].

OJJDP's Causes and Correlates of Delinquency Program. [2 pp., PDF Format].

OJJDP's A Compendium of Programs That Work for Youth. [2 pp., PDF Format].

OJJDP's Conflict Resolution. [2 pp., PDF Format].

OJJDP's Delinquency Prevention. [Text File].

OJJDP's Families and Schools Together. [2 pp., PDF Format].

OJJDP's Job Training for Juveniles: Project CRAFT. [2 pp., PDF Format].

OJJDP's PEPNet: Connecting Juvenile Offenders to Education and Employment. [2 pp., PDF Format].

OJJDP's Public/Private Ventures' Evaluation of Faith-Based Programs. [2 pp., PDF Format].

OJJDP's SafeFutures: Partnerships To Reduce Youth Violence and Delinquency. [2 pp., PDF Format].

OJJDP's Self-Reported Delinquency by 12-Year-Olds, 1997. [2 pp., PDF Format].

OJJDP's The Teens, Crime, and the Community Initiative. [2 pp., PDF Format].

OJJDP's A Treatment Study of Children With Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder. [2 pp., PDF Format].

OJJDP's What Works: Effective Delinquency Prevention and Treatment Programs. [Text File].

OJJDP's Best Practices in Juvenile Accountability: Overview. [12 pp., PDF Format]. Click Here for HTML.

Juvenile Justice Journal (Mental Health Issue). Youth With Mental Health Disorders: Issues and Emerging Responses. [HTML File].

Juvenile Justice Journal. (Mental Health Issue). Wraparound Milwaukee: Aiding Youth With Mental Health Needs. [HTML File]

OJJDP's Bridging the Child Welfare and Juvenile Justice Systems. [4 pp., PDF Format].

OJJDP's Child Development--Community Policing: Partnership in a Climate of Violence. [8 pp., PDF Format].

OJJDP's Curfew: An Answer to Juvenile Delinquency and Victimization? [12 pp., PDF Format].

OJJDP's Developmental Pathways in Boys Disruptive and Delinquent Behavior. [20 pp., PDF Format].

OJJDP's Juvenile Mentoring Program: A Progress Review. [8 pp., PDF Format].

OJJDP's Keeping Young People in School: Community Programs That Work. [12 pp., PDF Format].

OJJDP's Law Enforcement Referral of At-Risk Youth: The SHIELD Program. [8 pp., PDF Format].

OJJDP's Mentoring--A Proven Delinquency Prevention Strategy.

Family Issues

OJJDP's Responsible Fatherhood. [2 pp., PDF Format].

OJJDP's Family Strengthening for High-risk Youth. [Text File].

Juvenile Justice Journal (Parenting Issue). Raising Responsible and Resourceful Youth. [HTML File].

Juvenile Justice Journal (Parenting Issue). Strengthening America's Families. [HTML File].

OJJDP's Family Disruption and Delinquency. [6 pp., PDF Format].

OJJDP's Functional Family Therapy. [8 pp., PDF Format].

Gender and Delinquency

OJJDP's What about Girls? [2 pp., PDF Format]. Discusses the place of females in the juvenile justice system.

Linda Simourd and D.A. Andrews's Correlates of delinquency: A look at gender differences

Institute for Teaching and Research on Women's Gender and Aggression

OJJDP's Adolescent Motherhood: Implications for the Juvenile Justice System. [2 pp., PDF Format].

OJJDP's Female Offenders in the Juvenile Justice System. [40 pp., PDF Format].

OJJDP's Guiding Principles for Promising Female Programming: An Inventory of Best Practices. [HTML File].

OJJDP's Juvenile Female Offenders: A Status of the States Report. [HTML File].

Journal of Juvenile Justice (Focus on Girls Issue). Investing in Girls: A 21st Century Strategy. [HTML File].

Journal of Juvenile Justice (Focus on Girls Issue). The Female Intervention Team. [HTML File].

Journal of Juvenile Justice (Focus on Girls Issue). National Girls' Caucus. [HTML File].

Journal of Juvenile Justice (Focus on Girls Issue). The Juvenile Rights Advocacy Project: Representing Girls in Context. [HTML File].

OJP. Women in Criminal Justice: A Twenty Year Update. [Multipart HTML].

Gangs

Into the Abyss. An electronic book that provides an overview of gangs and the American gang phenomenon. [HTML Document]

Joan Moore and John Hagedorn's Female Gangs: A Focus on Research [HTML Document]

OJJDP's A Comprehensive Response to America's Youth Gang Problem. [2 pp., PDF Format].

OJJDP's Gangs. [Text File].

OJJDP's Highlights of the National Youth Gang Survey: 2001, 2000, 1999, 1998, 1997, 1996, 1995 [Various Files by Year, PDF Format].

OJJDP's Implementing the OJJDP Comprehensive Gang Model [2 pp., PDF Format].

OJJDP's National Youth Gang Center. [Text File].

OJJDP's National Youth Gang Survey Trends From 1996 to 2000. [2 pp., PDF Format].

OJJDP's Vietnamese Youth Gang Involvement. [2 pp., PDF Format].

OJJDP's Youth Gang Homicides in the 1990's. [2 pp., PDF Format].

OJJDP's Youth Gangs. [2 pp., PDF Format].

Juvenile Justice Journal. Youth Gang Drug Trafficking and Homicide: Policy and Program Implications. [HTML File].

Substance Abuse

OJJDP's Assessing Alcohol, Drug, and Mental Disorders in Juvenile Detainees. [2 pp., PDF Format].

OJJDP's Combating Underage Drinking. [2 pp., PDF Format]. Click Here for HTML.

OJJDP's The Drug-Free Communities Support Program. [2 pp., PDF Format].

OJJDP's Enforcing the Underage Drinking Laws Program. [2 pp., PDF Format].

OJJDP's A Guide to Combating Juvenile DUI. [2 pp., PDF Format].

OJJDP's Juvenile Arrests for Driving Under the Influence, 1995. [2 pp., PDF Format].

OJJDP's Mental Health Disorders and Substance Abuse Problems Among Juveniles. [2 pp., PDF Format].

OJJDP's Promising Practices: Drug-Free Communities Support Program. [2 pp., PDF Format].

OJJDP's Substance Abuse: The Nation's Number One Health Problem. [2 pp., PDF Format].

Juvenile Violence and Victimization

OJJDP's Are Juveniles Driving the Violent Crime Trend? [Text File].

OJJDP's Blueprints: A Violence Prevention Initiative. [2 pp., PDF Format].

OJJDP's Children's Exposure to Violence: The Safe Start Initiative. [2 pp., PDF Format].

OJJDP's Expert Panel Issues Report on Serious and Violent Juvenile Offenders. [2 pp., PDF Format].

OJJDP's Hate Crime. [Text File].

OJJDP's Juvenile Firesetting and Arson. [2 pp., PDF Format].

OJJDP's Juvenile Victimization: 1987-1992. [Text File].

OJJDP's Serious Habitual Offender Comprehensive Action Program. [Text File].

OJJDP's Strategies To Reduce Gun Violence. [2 pp., PDF Format].

OJJDP's Violent Families and Youth Violence. [Text File].

OJJDP's Juveniles Who Have Sexually Offended: A Review of the Professional Literature. [86 pp., PDF Format]. Click Here for HTML.

OJJDP's Trends in the Murder of Juveniles: 1980-2000 [8 pp., PDF Format]

School Delinquency and Violence Violence

Juvenile Justice Journal (School Violence Issue). School Violence: An Overview. [HTML File].

Juvenile Justice Journal (School Violence Issue). Creating Safe Schools: A Comprehensive Approach. [HTML File].

Juvenile Justice Journal (School Violence Issue). Conflict Resolution Education: Preparing Youth for the Future. [HTML File].

NIJ. The Appropriate and Effective Use of Security Technologies in U.S. Schools. [ Multipart HTML or PDF].

BJS. Indicators of School Crime and Safety, 2001. [191 pp., PDF Format].

CEPC. Safeguarding Our Children: An Action Guide: Implementing Early Warning, Timely Response. [Multipart HTML]

Child Abuse, Neglect, and Exploitation

OJJDP's Highlights of the Youth Internet Safety Survey. [2 pp., PDF Format].

OJJDP's The Missing and Exploited Children's Program (Update) [2 pp., PDF Format].

OJJDP's Parental Kidnapping. [Text File].

OJJDP's Family Abductors: Descriptive Profiles and Preventive Interventions. [8 pp., PDF Format]. Click Here for HTML.

Juvenile Justice Journal (Parenting Issue). Team H.O.P.E.: Help Offering Parents Empowerment. [HTML File] "H.O.P.E. helps families of missing children cope with their crises by linking them with trained volunteers who have gone through similar experiences."