Key Facts
Click on a document name to download a PDF file.Key Resource Documents
- JJDPA Recommendations and Background
- JJDPA Statement of Principles
- Potential for Change: Public Attitudes and Policy Preferences for Juvenile Justice Systems Reform
- Rehabilitation Versus Incarceration of Juvenile Offenders: Public Preferences in Four Models for Change States
Issue-Oriented Fact Sheets
- Adolescent Brain Development & Juvenile Justice
- Alternatives to Incarceration
- Child Welfare
- Cultural and Linguistic Competency
- Disproportionate Minority Contact (DMC)
- Gang Crisis in Context
- Girls and Juvenile Justice
- Indigent Defense/Waiver of Counsel
- Jail Removal and Sight and Sound Core Protections
- Juvenile Crime and Detention
- Juvenile Detention Reform
- Juvenile Status Offenses
- LGBTQ Youth
- Mental Health and Substance Abuse Needs
- NCCD - Youth Under 18 in the Adult Criminal Justice System
- Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP)
- Prevention
- Protecting Incarcerated Youth
- Rising Crime in Perspective
- Trying Youth as Adults
- Youth Housing Models for Community Re-Entry
- Youth in Adult Jails
- Youth Reentry Plans and Services
