Juvenile justice

Justice Center

Reports

2004 Census and Survey of Homeless Youths in Homer, Alaska by André Rosay (2005).

Articles

Multimedia

Projects

• Assessment of CANS. (JC 0006). N.E. Schafer, Matthew Giblin. Anchorage Police Department, Alaska Division of Juvenile Justice. 2000.
• Evaluation of Kids Are People Electronic Monitoring Program (A JAIBG Project) (JC 0010). N.E. Schafer. Bureau of Justice Statistics. 1999–2000.
• Gender-Specific Juvenile Probation Programming (JC 0306). N.E. Schafer & André Rosay. Justice Research and Statistics Association and Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention. 2002-2003.
• Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Jail Monitoring [project] (JC 8906, 9004, 9106, 9119, 9229, 9420, 9503, 9611, 9701, 9802, 9909, 0002, 0108, 0206). N.E. Schafer. Alaska Division of Family and Youth Services (FY 1989–1999), Alaska Division of Juvenile Justice (FY 2000–2001). Annual 1987–2001.
• Evaluation of United Youth Courts of Alaska (JC 0409). André Rosay, Gale Smoke, and Krista Scully. UAA Community–Based Learning Minigrant.
• Youth Violence in Anchorage (JC 0419). André Rosay and Sharon Chamard. Justice Center, University of Alaska Anchorage. 2004–2005.

Alaska

Alaska state agencies

• Alaska Division of Juvenile Justice (DJJ). DJJ was created as a new division of the Alaska Department of Health and Social Services (DHSS) in 1999 from the former Youth Corrections section of the Division of Family and Youth Services. DJJ administers juvenile probation services, juvenile detention facilities, juvenile training schools, and juvenile justice state and federal grant programs.
• Alaska Juvenile Justice Advisory Committee (AJJAC)
• Alaska Office of Children's Services (OCS). OCS (formerly the Division of Family and Youth Services (DFYS)) is charged with protecting children at risk of abuse and neglect; a division of the Alaska Department of Health and Social Services (DHSS).
• Alaska Juvenile Justice Advisory Committee. Established in 1993, this board comprises 15 to 33 officals and private citizens, who assist the Alaska Department of Health and Social Services in strengthening and improving the social services and juvenile justice systems at all levels. See current roster.

National

Federal agencies

• Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP). Office of Justice Programs, U.S. Department of Justice.

Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act of 1974 (JJDPA)

JJDPA mandates (1) deinstitutionalization of status offenders — meaning that youths accused of offenses which would not be crimes if they were adults, such as running away, curfew violation, or possession of alcohol, are not to be held in secure detention; (2) sight and sound separation between juvenile and adult offenders for those juvenile offenders who are detained; (3) removal of juveniles from adult jails and lockups (through, for example, placement in juvenile detention centers); and (4) a requirement for states to address disproportionate minority contact (DMC) with the juvenile justice system.

• Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act of 1974. Milestones and full text of the Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act of 1974, as amended (Public Law 93-415, 42 U.S.C. 5601 et seq.) through OJJDP.
• "The JJDP Act Mandates: Rationale and Summary" by Kathleen Kositzky Crank. OJJDP Fact Sheet #22. U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, January 1995.

Organizations

• Coalition for Juvenile Justice. National nonprofit association; primarily represents governor-appointed advisory groups that support the juvenile court system in the U.S. states, territories and District of Columbia.
• Juvenile Justice Evaluation Center (JJEC). A project of the Justice Research and Statistics Association (JRSA) to provide training, technical assistance and other resources to states to enhance their ability to evaluate juvenile justice programs.
• National Center for Juvenile Justice (NCJJ). The research division of the National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges, NCJJ is a national nonprofit conducting independent and original research on topics related directly and indirectly to the field of juvenile justice.