Tuesday, August 25, 2026

Few Juvenile Rehabilitative Programs Show Solid Evidence of Effectiveness

 Even the large body of juvenile-intervention research finds substantial variation. OJJDP notes that only a small percentage of rehabilitative programs used with justice-involved youth have actually been established as evidence-based.

OJJDP is the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention. It is part of the U.S. Department of Justice.

It is essentially the federal government's juvenile-justice research and policy office. It:

  • funds research on juvenile crime and juvenile justice;
  • evaluates programs intended to reduce juvenile offending;
  • provides guidance to state and local juvenile-justice systems;
  • publishes statistics and research reviews;
  • administers federal grants to states, municipalities and organizations.

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Few Juvenile Rehabilitative Programs Show Solid Evidence of Effectiveness

 Even the large body of juvenile-intervention research finds substantial variation. OJJDP notes that only a small percentage of rehabilitati...