RESOURCES

This is the new home page for the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention. Founded in 1974, the OJJDP has been a key resource in development and funding of juvenile justice programs.

• Released in July of 2004 by the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, this annual report summarizes current programs and resources for the fiscal year of 2002.  Some of the topics covered in this 88 page report are:  responding to child victimization, successful prevention and intervention techniques and the importance of re-entry programs for youth leaving correctional facilities.

• The Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) Census of Juveniles in Residential Placement provides current counts of youth in residential placement, state comparisons and a useful glossary of juvenile justice terminology.  Individual regions and states can be reach through this link, along with specific categories of youthful offenders.

• The OJJDP Model Program Guide provides a wide variety of juvenile justice related Model Programs at the immediate, intermediate, residential and reentry level of juvenile justice programming.  The Model Program Guide (MPG) provides a rating scale of Exemplary, Effective and Promising for the programs evaluated.  The MPG search can specify targeting strategies for specific offense, offender and community typologies.  This site provides and extremely user friendly and geographically manageable access to the wide range of current program evaluations.

  The American Bar Association sponsors this website which addresses legal issues effecting youth who are in the criminal justice system.  The ABA site provides current publications regarding the Juvenile Justice Committee, juvenile defense, juvenile court proceedings, and facts pertaining to the death penalty which remains an option in many states for juveniles.

The Center on Juvenile and Criminal Justice provides information, press releases, and publications on current juvenile justice issues, such as:  girls in juvenile justice systems, race and juvenile justice, and myths and facts regarding juvenile justice.  This site is based in California, and primarily focus on California's juvenile justice issues.

Center for Delinquency and Crime Policy Studies (IAP) is a research-based approach to transitioning youth from confinement back into the community. The research and development of this project began in 1988 under the direction of Dr. David Altschuler, Johns Hopkins University, and Dr. Troy Armstrong, California State University, Sacramento. Funding of this project has been an initiative of the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP).

Indiana Department of Corrections:  The Indiana Department of Corrections State link to location information of adult and juvenile state facilities, information on specific facilities, and job postings.  In addition, this website provides facts regarding offender population in the State of Indiana.

The Future of Children provides a listing of current publications and resources focusing on youth,  from a variety of different schools of thought (legal, education, medical, etc.). 

The Juvenile Information Network website is a component of the Corrections Connection Network.  This website provides information on conferences, new publications and resources.  The Corrections Connection is sponsored in part by E. Kentucky University, a premier criminal justice program which offers a unique Masters of Science Degree in Correctional and Juvenile Justice Studies.

The Office of Justice Programs site offers an overview of Re-entry and Re-entry programs and their role in adult and juvenile corrections philosophy.

The National Center for Juvenile Justice provides a state-by-state summary of juvenile justice systems in the US.  This link will direct you to the 51 different juvenile justice systems in the US.  The Indiana page also provides a brief over-view of AIM's role in juvenile aftercare in the State of Indiana.

The Statistical Briefing Book is provided by the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention.  The SBB summarizes data on a variety of juvenile justice topics including: juvenile crime, juvenile court involvement, juvenile probation, juvenile corrections, and juvenile aftercare.

1998 Status of the States Report:  Focused primarily on juvenile female offenders and includes individual state population summaries, gender specific services and treatment information.  This is a useful site for the often forgotten female population of youth who are incarcerated.
 

The Three R's of Reentry:  a component paper of the restorative justice movement which incorporates reentry.  The Three R's are:  Reparative, Relationships, and Responsibility.

The US Department of Justice Reentry website provides a source for publications, grants and state specific programming regarding juvenile and adult reentry.  AIM and the Fort Wayne Re-entry Program are specifically highlighted in the Indiana portion of this summary.