National Institute of Justice.

This webpage on sexual assault kits contains a section on victim notification and how to be Victim-Centered and Trauma-Informed. The section also describes action research projects in Detroit and Houston to develop victim notification protocols that are victim-centered and trauma-informed.

WestCoast Children's Clinic.
This memo summarizes the criteria used to evaluate screening tools to identify commercially sexually exploited children. WestCoast Children’s Clinic (WCC) conducted a literature review and environmental scan of available tools and evaluated those tools according to specific criteria. WestCoast also incorporated information provided by the Child Welfare Council’s Commercially Sexually Exploited Children (CSEC) Action Team.

This webpage provides resources specific to victims of juvenile offenders. California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation.

The Risk, Need, Responsivity (RNR) Simulation Tool was developed to help jurisdictions apply the RNR framework to practice. This document describes the RNR Simulation Tool and how it was developed. The RNR Simulation Tool is supported by a database of over 20,000 unique offender profiles of various risk, need, and recidivism combinations. The goal of this document is to help users understand the components of the model.

This report is written in response to H.B. No. 2291, relating to a study of established victim offender mediation programs in Texas’ juvenile probation departments. Section I of this report provides general background information on Victim Offender Mediation (VOM), including its benefits, potential pitfalls, and best practices based on nationwide research of VOM programs. Section II focuses on VOM programs in Texas juvenile probation departments. Although there are nine juvenile probation departments with VOM programs, only

For people involved in the criminal justice system, evidence-based practice (EBP) and treatments emphasize that assessment and programming should target criminal justice, criminogenic need, and other behavioral issues. The notion is that individual outcomes can be improved by assessing for a number of related and often overlapping dimensions such as offending (e.g. criminal history risk), needs (e.g. antisocial peers, antisocial cognitions, antisocial values/thinking) and behavioral health factors (e.g. substance use, mental health, trauma).

The evidence-based practices (EBP) framework emphasizes that justice agencies should match offenders to services and programs based on their risk and need factors (“the RNR Principles”).

This research analyzes changes made by a juvenile court over five years toward the progressive inclusion of victims as “stakeholders” within the implementation and development of restorative justice practices. Beginning in 1999,the Clark County Juvenile Court (CCJC) in Washington State introduced a VictimOffender Mediation (VOM) program.Subsequently, the court altered diversion and probation practices in ways that provided several significant services tovictims, and afforded victims increased decision-making capacity. Western Criminology Review, 2013.

The Firewood Program was developed for juvenile probationers in a rural Pennsylvania county to improve the completion rate of restitution payments to victims and provide community service. This study examines the effectiveness of the restitution program, which was measured as an increase in the offender’s level of empathy and shorter completion times of restitution payments. International Journal of Criminology and Sociology, 2014.

This article covers the Longmont Restorative Justice Program. Boulder County District Attorney Stan Garnett's office will be one of four in Colorado participating in a state pilot program to help youths stay out of the court system - even the juvenile court system - and resolve their cases through restorative justice. Boulder Daily Camera, 2014.