Youth Data & Intervention Initiative Report – Volume II
Oakland Landscape Analysis
Highlights of ARPA Funded Violence Reduction Efforts
The National Cost of Gun Violence: The Price Tag for Taxpayers
Washington, DC Gun Violence Reduction Strategic Plan
Columbus Landscape Analysis
Understanding Gun Violence Among Maryland Youth
Effective Community Based Violence Reduction Strategies
New and Emerging Models of Community Safety and Policing
Youth Data & Intervention Initiative
NOAB: Youth Development and Diversion Program – Progress Report 2023
A Positive Youth Justice System
The juvenile justice system has proven to be ineffective, harmful, and excessively expensive. The system is in need of complete transformation. The National Institute for Criminal Justice Reform (NICJR) is proud to present “A Positive Youth Justice System,” a report and campaign that provides a roadmap to comprehensive reform. Download the report below and learn more about the campaign by visiting our work on criminal justice reform.
Healthy, Wealthy & Wise
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Transformative Credible Messenger Mentoring to Reduce Violence and Justice System Involvement.
Criminal Justice Reform in California
In the past 10 years, California has led the nation in implementing several notable criminal justice reform measures that have reduced incarceration rates, improved conditions in the system, and increased investment in community-based services. This report outlines these reforms, highlighting the different approaches states can take to achieve change.
Young Professionals of Color Fellowship Program
Inaugural Fellowship Report
The Beat Within – Visions of Reform Issue!
Fresno Police and Community Safety Transformation
The killing of George Floyd was the match that lit a flame that has been brewing for a long time. Nationwide demands for not just reform, but transformation, of policing have put pressure on local jurisdictions across the country to make rapid and real change. In Fresno, more than 3,000 demonstrators participated in a protest demanding racial justice and police reform.
NICJR’s Framework for Transforming Police
The killing of George Floyd by Minneapolis police was the match that lit a fire that has been building in our communities for a long time. Nationwide demands for not just reform, but complete transformation of policing have put pressure on local jurisdictions across the country to make rapid and real change.
A Landscape Analysis of Washington, DC Community Based Services and Supports
Why Is Gun Violence Surging Across America?
National OVP Landscape Scan – Jan 2022
Oakland’s Successful Gun Violence Strategy
This paper describes Oakland, California’s Gun Violence Reduction Strategy, also known as Ceasefire, which has contributed to five consecutive years of reductions in fatal and non-fatal shootings in Oakland, reaching the second lowest level in the last 47 years in 2017. The purpose of this paper is to accurately describe the Oakland Strategy – it’s values, components and mechanics.
