Articles Published by NIJ

These five findings provide insights into the nature, scope, and context of youth and delinquency.

Anonymous reporting systems only work if the whole school community learns when and how to use them.

To realize the full potential of youth mentoring programs, it is critical to advance research on program effectiveness and population-level impact.

A new area of research suggests that schools should have a systematic and coordinated approach in place to gather and process information on threats, respond appropriately, and document the response.

The National Institute of Justice and the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention are working to improve data on juvenile residential placement facilities and the youth they hold.

Adults trying to curb cyberbullying of teens need to understand what it is and how it works in teens’ social networks; research on the content and context of cyberaggression may help build solutions.

Tip lines make possible confidential reporting of threats and problems and may benefit schools beset by safety and crime threats. More studies are needed on their effectiveness, but a new tip line toolkit instructs schools on how they work.

NIJ-funded researchers looked at the effect of the program on participants in their high school years.

Researchers looked at developmental pathways of teen dating violence in a high-risk sample.

Preventing dating violence is a concern for school administrators across the nation. One challenging aspect of school prevention programs is that most only target high school students even though dating violence begins in middle school.