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NIJ’s Juvenile Justice Research Portfolio informs efforts to prevent and respond to juvenile delinquency and protect children from victimization by supporting research and evaluation in three broad areas: child maltreatment and victimization, delinquency prevention, and juvenile justice systems.
The juvenile justice system was created as an alternative to the criminal justice system to hold youths accountable for their law-violating actions with the goal...
