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Visit these resources to learn more about juvenile justice including new research, promising programs, and public policy efforts.

Massachusetts-based Programs


Children’s Advocacy Center of Suffolk County

Children's Law Center of Massachusetts

Citizens for Juvenile Justice

Committee for Public Counsel Services (CPCS)

Community Resources for Justice

Crime & Justice Institute

Health Law Advocates

Juvenile Justice Center at Suffolk University Law School

Massachusetts Advocates for Children

Massachusetts Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers (MACDL)

Massachusetts Department of Education

Massachusetts Department of Children and Families (DCF) [formally DSS]

Massachusetts Department of Youth Services (DYS)

Massachusetts Juvenile Court Department

Massachusetts Legal Aid Directory 2009

Massachusetts Office of the Child Advocate

Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Oral Arguments

Massachusetts Yellow Pages for Kids with Disabilities


National Programs


Act 4 Juvenile Justice

American Bar Association Juvenile Justice Center

American Probation and Parole Association

Annie E. Casey Foundation

Building Blocks for Youth

Bureau of Justice Statistics

Campaign for Youth Justice

Center on Juvenile and Criminal Justice

Child Welfare League of America

Children and Family Justice Center, Northwestern University

Coalition for Juvenile Justice

Criminal Justice Policy Coalition

Girls' Justice Initiative

Healthy Youth: Division of Adolescent and School Health (DASH)

Juvenile Justice Evaluation Center

Justice Policy Institute Justice Research and Statistics Association

Juvenile Law Center

The Law and Neuroscience Project

MacArthur Foundation Research Network on Adolescent Development & Juvenile Justice

National Association of Counsel for Children

National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers

National Center for Juvenile Justice

National Center on Education, Disability and Juvenile Justice

National Center on Sexual Behavior of Youth

National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges

National Council on Crime and Delinquency

National Criminal Justice Reference Service, U.S. Department of Justice

National Immigration Project

National Juvenile Defender Center

National Juvenile Justice Network

National Legal Aid and Defender Network

National Youth Gang Center

New England Juvenile Defender Center

Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention

Supreme Court of the United States

Urban Think Tank

Vera Institute of Justice

W. Haywood Burns Institute

Youth Law Center