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Juvenile Justice

The sites listed in this section are not under the direction of GOCF; we have no control over their content. This listing does not serve as an endorsement by GOCF of the views expressed in any of these sites.

Georgia Department of Juvenile Justice
www.djj.state.ga.us/
"The Department of Juvenile Justice provides supervision, detention and a wide range of treatment and educational services for youths referred to the Department by the Juvenile Courts, and provides assistance or delinquency prevention services for at-risk youths through collaborative efforts with other public, private and community entities."

Juvenile Justice Publications
www.jrsa.org/pubs/juv-justice/index.html
"This site is useful for an exhaustive list of publications from the Juvenile Justice Evaluation Center. It contains many valuable writings from a series of briefings prepared by the Justice Research and Statistics Associations Juvenile Justice Evaluation Center (JJEC). "The purpose of this briefing series is to provide juvenile justice program managers with information that will help them to evaluate their programs. It also contains the findings from the SAC Juvenile Justice Evaluation Partnership Projects and a Guidebook Series that provides information to enhance juvenile justice evaluation."

Justice Research and Statistics Association
www.jrsainfo.org/resources/acronyms-abbreviations.pdf
This website provides helpful acronyms and abbreviations often used in the Juvenile Justice field. This glossary provides acronyms and abbreviations for agencies, organizations, programs, and useful terms for Juvenile Justice.

National Criminal Justice Reference Service Q&A
www.ncjrs.gov/app/qa/SearchQA.aspx
"NCJRS is a federally funded resource offering justice and substance abuse information to support research, policy, and program development worldwide. NCJRS hosts one of the largest criminal and juvenile justice libraries and databases in the world, the NCJRS Abstracts Database."

Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention
www.ojjdp.ncjrs.org/
"The Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) provides national leadership, coordination, and resources to prevent and respond to juvenile delinquency and victimization. OJJDP supports states and communities in their efforts to develop and implement effective and coordinated prevention and intervention programs and to improve the juvenile justice system so that it protects public safety, holds offenders accountable, and provides treatment and rehabilitative services tailored to the needs of juveniles and their families."

Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Statistical Briefing Book
www.ojjdp.ncjrs.gov/ojstatbb/about.html
"The OJJDP Statistical Briefing Book (SBB) enables users to access online information via OJJDP's Web site to learn more about juvenile crime and victimization and about youth involved in the juvenile justice system. Developed for OJJDP by the National Center for Juvenile Justice, SBB provides timely and reliable statistical answers to the most frequently asked questions from policymakers, the media, and the general public. In addition, the data analysis and dissemination tools available through SBB give users quick and easy access to detailed statistics on a variety of juvenile justice topics."

OJJDP DMC Reduction Best Practices Database
www2.dsgonline.com/mpg/dmc_default.aspx
"The OJJDP DMC Reduction Best Practices Database is designed to assist jurisdictions in the development of initiatives to reduce Disproportionate Minority Contact (DMC). The central feature of this Web site is a searchable database that assists jurisdictions in identifying both multi-component jurisdictional DMC initiatives that have demonstrated a basic level of effectiveness in reducing DMC as well as single-component programmatic interventions that were not necessarily developed to reduce DMC but may prove useful as a tool in the arsenal against DMC."

OJJDP Model Programs Guide
www.ojjdp.ncjrs.org/programs/mpg.html
"The OJJDP Model Programs Guide is a user-friendly, online portal to scientifically tested and proven programs that address a range of issues across the juvenile justice spectrum. Developed as a tool to support the Title V Community Prevention Grants Program, the Guide has been recently expanded. The Guide now profiles more than 175 prevention and intervention programs and helps communities identify those that best suit their needs. Users can search the Guide's database by program category, target population, risk and protective factors, effectiveness rating, and other parameters. Juvenile justice practitioners are encouraged to take advantage of this helpful resource."

Strengthening America's Families: Effective Family Programs for Prevention of Delinquency
www.strengtheningfamilies.org/html/model_programs.html
"The Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) collaborated with the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Service's Center for Substance Abuse Prevention (CSAP) to provide the results of the 1999 search for best practice family strengthening programs. The programs on this website are divided into categories based upon the degree, quality and outcomes of research associated with them. You will also find a program matrix. This may be helpful to you in determining "at a glance" which programs may best meet your community needs."