Research and Resources
Interested in Other Juvenile Justice Resources?
A primary goal of Juvenile Justice Vision 20/20 is to educate others and share information about juvenile justice. As the Executive Team comes across interesting and informative articles and publications, they will be included on this page.
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- Evaluation of the Effects of a Mentoring Program for Youth in Foster Care on Their Criminal Justice Involvement as Young Adults
- Raised on the Registry
- Future Interrupted: The Collateral Damage by Proliferation of Juvenile Records
- Tribal Youth and Substance Abuse Application of Culturally Relevant Screening and Assessment Process and Tribal Best Practices - OJJDP
- Healing Guidebook: Practical Tips & Tools for Working with Children and Youth Who have Experienced Trauma (and for the Adults Who Love Them, Too)
- New Zealand's Youth Justice Transformation: Lessons for the United States
2017
- Youth in Prison Legislative Package Overview
- Creating Meaningful Change in the Relationship Between Law Enforcement and Youth of Color
- A Review of Tribal Best Practices in Substance Abuse Prevention
- Spotlight on Juvenile Justice Initiatives: A State by State Survey
2016
- Unjust: How the Broken Juvenile Justice and Criminal Justice Systems Fail LGBTQ Youth
- Preparing to Set-Aside a Juvenile Criminal Record
- Confidentiality of Youth in the Juvenile Justice System
- Reducing the Collateral Consequences of a Delinquency Adjudication
- Girls, Status Offenses and the Need for a Less Punitive and More Empowering Approach
2015
- Caring for Youth with Mental Health Needs in the Juvenile Justice System: Improving Knowledge and Skills
- Giving Girls the Supports they Need to Lead Safe and Healthy Lives
- Locked Out: Improving Educational and Vocational Outcomes for Incarcerated Youth
2014
- Juvenile Records: A National Review of State Laws on Confidentiality, Sealing and Expungement
- Sticker Shock: Calculating the Full Price Tag for Youth Incarceration - December 2014 Justice Policy Institute
- Juvenile Delinquency Guidelines: Improving Court Practices in Juvenile Delinquency Cases
- Public Opinion on Juvenile Justice in America - November 2014 Pew Charitable Trusts Brief
Additional Resources
Juvenile Justice Vision 20/20 is pleased to offer a variety of research and resource documents that relate to various issues in juvenile justice. Historical documents are currently available in the following categories:
Addiction Resources
- A Developmental Model of Chemical Dependency Pre-Treatment
- A Disease, Not a Crime
- Addiction: What Every Judge Should Know
- Caught in the Net: The Impact of Drug Policies on Women and Families
- Differences in Patterns of Drug Use Between Women and Men
- Drug Use and Gender
- Psychopharmacology
Assessment Documents
- Adolescents: What are They Thinking?
- Cook County Juvenile Female Offender Risk Assessment Study
- Devereux Elementary School Behavior Rating Scale
- Mental Health Screening within Juvenile Justice: The New Frontier
- Piers-Harris Children's Self Concept Scale
Education Resources
- Alternative Education: From a Last Chance to Proactive Model
- Areas of Confusion for Learning Disabled Students
- Celebrating Diversity
- Checklist of Dyslexic Characteristics
- Diversity Groups for Reference
- Food Allergy: The Great Masquerader
- Generosity, Independence, Mastery, and Belonging
- The Junk-Food Syndrome
- Learning Dysfunctions in the Classroom
- Perceptual Development and School Learning
- Sexual Health Education Does Lead to Safer Sexual Behaviour
- Shoestring Baby Syndrome
- What's Eating You
Girl-Centered and LGBTQIA+Programming Library
- A Boy's Life
- A Wake-Up Call: Trends in Girls' Involvement in the Justice System
- Addressing Barriers to Using Respite Beds for Girls Charged with Domestic Violence
- Adolescent Brain Development & Juvenile Justice Fact Sheet
- Annotated Bibliography
- Appropriate Programming for Female Offenders
- Bad Girls, Bad Girls, Whatcha Gonna Do
- Biological Differences Summary
- Blind Discretion: Girls of Color & Delinquency in the Juvenile Justice System
- Breaking New Ground on the First Coast: Examining Girls' Pathways into the Juvenile Justice System
- Caught in the Net: The Impact of Drug Policies on Women and Families
- Causes and Correlates of Girls' Delinquency
- The Challenges for Women Offenders Trying to Succeed in the Community
- Changing Conversations about Sexual Assault
- Changing Perceptions of the Etiology of Crime
- Cook County: A Plan for Juvenile Female Offenders
- Cook County Juvenile Female Offender Risk Assessment Study
- Cook County Juvenile Female Offender Project Overview
- NCCD Cook County Juvenile Female Offender Project Overview
- Dealing with Authority Figures
- Definition of Gender-Specific Programming for Girls
- Enhancing Opportunities for Michigan's Girls and Young Women
- Equity for Girls
- Fact Sheet: City Girls Program
- Fact Sheet: Girls and Juvenile Justice
- Female Adolescent Aggression
- Female Gangs: A Focus on Research
- Female Genital Mutilation Cutting in the United States
- Female Responsive Resource List
- Female Responsive Services - Value Statements
- Female Sexual Abusers: A Theory of Loss
- Females in the Juvenile Justice System
- Gender Injustice: System-Level Juvenile Justice Reform
- Gender Response Strategies
- Gender-Responsive Supervision and Programming for Women Offenders
- Gender-Specific Programming for Female Offenders
- Gender-Specific Programming for Girls
- Gender-Specific Programming
- Gender-Specific Services for Court-Involved Girls
- Gender-Specific Treatment Rationale
- Girls and Crime
- Girls Count
- Girls and Delinquency: Using Research to Develop Good Practice
- Girls, Status Offenses and the Need for a Less Punitive and More Empowering Approach
- Give Girls a Competitive Edge
- Giving Girls the Supports they Need to Lead Safe and Healthy Lives
- Guidelines for Juvenile Female Specific Programs
- Guiding Principles for Promising Female Programming
- He Thinks, She Thinks
- How Can Case Managers Help Girls
- How Men's Brains are Wired Differently Than Women's
- How to Implement Guidelines for Effective Gender-Responsive Programming
- In Harm's Way: Child Abuse, Child Rape, Sex Trafficking
- Incorporating the Voice of Parents and Guardians to Improve Services for Girls and Families
- Intermediate Sanctions for Women Offenders
- Interventions: City Women
- Interview Questions Based on the Five Female Responsive Values
- Investing in Girls
- Investing in Girls: A 21st Century Strategy
- Justice By Gender
- Juvenile Female Offenders: How Do You Meet Their Needs in Your Juvenile Justice Setting?
- The Mean Girls: Nasty and Vengeful from an Early Age
- Mentoring Guide for Life Skills
- The Myth of Mean Girls
- Nuts and Bolts of Gender Responsive Programming
- Power and Identity: Group Therapy for Female Delinquents
- Report of the APA Task Force on the Sexualization of Girls
- Research on Women and Girls in the Justice System
- Resilient Girls - Factors that Protect Against Delinquency
- Resource Lists
- Resources Identified at NICs Female Offender Training Program
- Responding to Women Offenders on a Personal Level
- Responding to Women Offenders: Equitable Does Not Mean Identical
- The Signs are There: Girls and Juvenile Justice in Wayne County
- Stages in the Treatment: Accountability Continuum of Care
- Stereotypes in Culture and Media
- Talking Circles
- Telling Our Stories and Changing Our Lives
- Trauma Among Girls in the Juvenile Justice System
- We Can Do Better: Helping Prostituted Women and Girls in Grand Rapids
- What About Girls?
- What is Gender-Specific Programming for Girls?
- Who and Why: Prostitution Round Table
- Why Battered Women Stay: Some Reflections
- Why Young Girls Die Behind Bars
- Wired Differently
- Women and Girls in the Justice System
- Women and the Criminal Justice System: Gender Matters
- Women in America: Indicators of Social and Economic Well-Being
- Working with Girls: Meeting the Challenge
- Working with Multiple Problem Youth-Families
Gang Information
- The Code of the Streets
- The Effects of Joining and Leaving a Gang on Delinquent Offending
- Gangs: Pro-Active Approach
- Gang Slang
- Gang Violence: A Solution from Within
- Getting Out of Gangs, Staying Out of Gangs: Gang Intervention and Desistence Strategies
- How Do you Leave a Gang?
- Managing Violence in our Schools
- Occult Criminal Investigation
- Safe School
- South Metro Youth Gang and Violence Prevention Project
- Street Gangs in the Greater Holland Area
- Street Gang Information - Grand Rapids Public Schools
- Symbols
- Weapons, Drugs, and Alcohol
- Youth Violence In Society Today
Parenting Resources
- The 12 Steps of Parenting
- Can Parents of Juvenile Offenders Still Dream?
- Florence Crane Women's Facility & Camp Branch: Parenting Program Objectives and Curriculum
- "How am I Doing as My Daughter's Father?"
- How Do Children Handle the Incarceration of a Parent?
- Infant Development
- Parent Job Description
- Parenting Myths
- Pre-Natal and Child Development
- Raising Daughters
- Raising Healthy Daughters
- Rules for Being Human
Treatment and Trauma Resources
- Building Safety, Repairing Harm
- Dealing with Parent and Child in Serious Abuse Cases
- Differences Between Grief and Trauma
- The Early Recollection: A Clue to Present Behavior
- The Importance of Becoming a Trauma-Informed Juvenile Treatment Court
- Incest: A Chilling Report
- Maltreating and the Developing Child
- New Perspectives on Supervised Visitation and Safe Exchange: Orientation
- On Safety's Side
- Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
- The Power of Early Childhood
- Signs of a Batterer and Predictions of Potential Abuse
- Sources of Information for Identifying Domestic Violence
- Teens and Grief
- TLC Institute
- Trauma
Miscellaneous Resources
- 2019 Prevention Resource Guide - Strong & Thriving Families
- 4 Pillars of Court Records Management: People, Politics, Governance
- Adolescent-Based Treatment Intervention Comparison Matrix
- Adolescent Sex Offender Treatment Program
- Can the Drop in Juvenile Incarcerations Offer Lessons for Adult Policy?
- Child Welfare Workers and Michigan's Family Court Legislation
- Circle of Courage
- The Comeback and Coming-from-Behind States
- Creating Juvenile Justice Models for Change
- Criminal Sexual Conduct
- The Cutting Edge
- Developing a Policies and Procedures Manual
- The Expert Witness
- Framing Justice Interventions Using the Concepts of Positive Youth Development
- Gay Brains Structured Like Those of the Opposite Sex
- Human Trafficking in America's Schools
- Implementation of Community Partnerships Lessons Learned
- Judicial Guide: Identifying and Serving Youth Experiencing Homelessness
- Juvenile Case Flow
- The Juvenile Court's Role in Immigration Petitions
- Juvenile Detention Facility Assessment Standards
- LGBTQ Youths in the Juvenile Justice System
- Locked Out: Improving Educational and Vocational Outcomes for Incarcerated Youth
- Making a Difference for Juveniles
- Michigan Court Quick Reference Guide
- Motivational Enhancement Therapy
- No Place for Kids: The Case for Reducing Juvenile Incarceration
- Protecting the Confidentiality of Justice-Involved Youth
- Reclaiming Youth At Risk
- Reducing Crime: It Can be Done
- Report on Adolescent Brains Hits Nerve in Criminal Justice Debate
- Report on the Behavioral Health Program for Youth Committed to Illinois Department of Juvenile Justice
- Representing the Whole Child: A Juvenile Defender Training Manual
- Screening and Assessment of Co-Occurring Disorders in the Justice System
- The Six Stages of Successful Aftercare Services
- Spirituality
- Statewide Implementation of Parenting with Love and Limits
- Supportive Families, Healthy Children
- Trends in State Courts - 2014
- Understanding Adolescents: A Juvenile Court Training Curriculum
- What to Do When You are Called as a Witness to Testify in Court
- Why the Leadership Bench Never Gets Deeper
- Working Together for the Best Outcomes for Youth With Serious Emotional Disorders
- Youth in Jails: A Growing Issue