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Join OJJDP on October 3, 2022, from 2 to 3 p.m. ET for "Youth Justice Action Month: Creating Brighter Futures for Our Nation’s Youth."

This webinar—hosted by OJJDP in partnership with the Coalition for Juvenile Justice and the National Juvenile Justice Network—will highlight Youth Justice Action Month (YJAM), recognized each October to raise awareness about supporting justice-involved youth.

During the webinar, OJJDP Administrator...

The Center for Juvenile Justice Reform (CJJR), in partnership with the National Center for Lesbian Rights and Ceres Policy Research, is accepting applications for its 2022 Supporting the Well-Being of System-Involved LGBTQ Youth Certificate Program, to be held virtually from November 14–18, 2022.

This training is designed to help juvenile justice, child welfare, and other system partners improve outcomes for LGBTQ youth in child-serving...

Join OJJDP in observing the 48th anniversary of the Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act (JJDPA) and its impact on juvenile justice.

Signed into law on September 7, 1974, the JJDPA established OJJDP to support local and state efforts to prevent delinquency and improve the juvenile justice system.

In 2018, the Juvenile Justice Reauthorization Act reauthorized and amended the JJDPA. The legislation strengthens the four...

Register for upcoming youth justice-related webinars.

The National Institute of Justice has released two research reports on investigating the effectiveness of school resource officers (SROs):

• Investigator-Initiated Research: The Comprehensive School Safety Initiative Study of Police in Schools. This study assesses the effects of SROs on school disciplinary offenses and actions. The research addresses whether the effects of SROs vary by student characteristics, SRO approach, or school and community characteristics.
• School...

OJJDP and the National Institute of Justice have released Patterns of Juvenile Court Referrals of Youth Born in 2000. The bulletin describes the patterns of juvenile court referrals of more than 160,000 youth born in 2000 from 903 selected United States counties. 

Using data from the National Juvenile Court Data Archive, the bulletin focuses on the demographic and case processing characteristics of youth referred...

OJJDP has updated its Statistical Briefing Book with a new Data Snapshot that shows the decline of youth arrests through 2020. The snapshot draws on national arrest estimates from the FBI’s Uniform Crime Reporting Program. The data show the number of arrests involving youth fell 84 percent between 1996 and 2020. The data also show the number of youth arrests for violent crime in 2020 was one-third the...