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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 research captures interviews about the juvenile justice system from young people aged 18 to 24 years old who have lived experience with the system and provides valuable insights on how research can help improve the system for young people.

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.

Equitable evaluation is an approach that addresses the dynamics and practices that have historically undervalued the voices, knowledge, expertise, capacity, and experiences of all evaluation participants and stakeholders, particularly people of color and other marginalized groups. This brief explores how equitable evaluation principles can implemented.

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 report documents how four states have scaled-up the Juvenile Detention Alternatives Initiative, summarizes lessons learned from implementation, and presents key findings that can inform practice and guide future scale-ups.

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

Gain perspective on restorative justice in U.S. schools through this comprehensive review of the literature.

Learn how practitioners are integrating restorative justice practices into their schools as an alternative to traditional responses to student misbehavior.