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This systematic review of research by WestEd’s Justice and Prevention Research Center in partnership with the American Institutes for Research examines factors influencing female involvement in gangs and collateral involvement in sex trafficking.

This article presents key findings from a study funded by the National Institute of Justice (NIJ), which examined the implementation of behavioral threat assessment in high schools throughout Texas.

This archived webinar, presented by the WestEd Justice & Prevention Research Center, focuses on the most pressing operational challenges associated with developing, implementing, and maintaining an evidence-based program within K-12 schools.

In this brief, we investigate whether increasing student exposure to restorative practices could help reduce racial discipline and achievement gaps, drawing from a large sample of secondary students who completed the California Healthy Kids Survey between the 2013/14 and 2018/19 school years.

WestEd and AIR’s programmatic evaluation of Massachusetts’ Safe and Successful Youth Initiative (SSYI) demonstrates the positive impact of SSYI on community-level crime and client-level behaviors.

This report shares recommendations for implementing and evaluating initiatives aimed at systems change to improve outcomes for unconnected youth.

This research brief summarizes the evidence on school-based law enforcement and its impact on school safety as well as racial differences in how school-based law enforcement is experienced.

This updated review documents the current breadth of evidence on restorative justice, provides a more comprehensive picture of how restorative practices are implemented in schools, and lays the groundwork for future research, implementation, and policy.

This guide helps school and district leaders analyze and better use student-level disciplinary data.

This report describes a sample of 25 local juvenile drug treatment courts, including current operations and structures, challenges, and successes.