Established under the Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (JJDP) Act, the role of the Federal Advisory Committee on Juvenile Justice (FACJJ) is to advise the President and Congress on matte
Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention
This bulletin draws on data from the first national survey of suicides of youth in confinement to review juvenile suicides that occurred in confinement between 1995 and 1999.
Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention
Drawing on data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health, this bulletin describes how four factors (the presence of a caring adult, school connectedness, school success, and religi
National Center for Mental Health and Juvenile Justice Policy Research Associates, Inc.
This paper reports on the results of a survey that was conducted of promising programs that provide mental health services to youth involved in the juvenile justice system, to find out how these programs were funded.
National Center for Mental Health and Juvenile Justice
This paper explores some of the new issues that have emerged in the juvenille justice field as a result of widespread mental health screening adopted by most states. The issues explored in this paper include mental health screening procedures and policies and implementation of mental health screening within a juvenille justice program.
National Center for Mental Health and Juvenile Justice
The purpose of this paper is to discuss the prevalence and impact of trauma and traumatic stress among youth in the juvenile justice system and to describe emerging responses for identifying and treating these problems.
This Bulletin introduces the Survey of Youth in Residential Placement (SYRP), reviewing its background, describing its design and methodology, discussing its strengths and limitations, and summariz
In this policy brief, the authors draw on articles in a recently released volume of The Future of Children devoted to juvenile justice to examine the problem of youth confinement in correctional fa
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