Purpose & Scope
Professionals who work with at-risk, troubled, or delinquent youth are confronted with a broad spectrum of issues, challenges, and concerns. Within the juvenile services field, individuals—direct care staff, administrators, community leaders and policymakers—need access to rigorous, interdisciplinary, translational, and applicable research. JAJJS endeavors to provide this vital research to help propel juvenile services field forward toward its full potential. To be of most value, this research should focus on critical issues and emerging trends. Ultimately, the test of utility will be how effectively practitioners can apply concepts and lessons learned on a daily basis to positively impact the lives of the youth they serve.
The journal is intended to disseminate timely information focused on critically examining a wide variety of topics related to juvenile justice, including;
- Effective strategies and practice
- Critical issues and emerging trends within the field of juvenile services
- The operation and administration of juvenile facilities such as detention, corrections, residential treatment, shelter facilities, group homes, and other community-based and institutional placements for youth
- Legal issues that affect juvenile justice practice
- Programming such as behavioral, educational, recreation, medical and mental health, focus groups, and life skills training
- Ethical issues in the treatment of juveniles
- Leadership and training in juvenile justice
Open Access
We believe youth and families are best served when practitioners are able to access and apply rigorous contemporary research, and that research pertinent to the health and safety of youth and families should not be hidden behind a paywall. For this reason, the JAJJS has been entirely open access since our debut in 2014.
CrossMark
The Journal of Applied Juvenile Justice Services participates in the Crossmark initiative. Crossmark is a multi-publisher initiative that offers readers a standard method to identify the current, authoritative version of a piece of published content. JAJJS affirms our commitment to maintaining a reliable Version of Record and strengthening integrity of the scholarly record by applying Crossmark policies to its publications. View JAJJS CrossMark policy here.
Our Mission →
The
Journal of Applied Juvenile Justice Services (JAJJS) shares useable knowledge about effective practices, strategies, and standards used to impact positively the field of juvenile justice services, youth, families, and communities.
Our Vision →
The Journal of Applied Juvenile Justice Services (JAJJS) will be recognized as one of the juvenile justice profession’s most important publications. The Journal will explore and explain complex evidence-based principles that direct care practitioners and administrators apply in daily experience.
Our Values →
NPJS and JAJJS value commitment to excellence in professional development, cooperative, collaborative research grounded in honesty, integrity, and trust, multi-disciplinary and multi-perspective research, the presentation of effective practice and data-driven research results to practitioners and the general public, utilization of technology and critical thinking to investigate issues in juvenile services and knowledge as the catalyst for change.
Our Roots
The National Partnership for Juvenile Services (NPJS) is proud to sponsor the Journal of Applied Juvenile Justice Services. The JAJJS is the newest evolution in a series of applied journals published by NPJS and its partner organizations over the past four decades. Previous publications originated with Counterpoint and the Journal for Juvenile Justice and Detention Services, both of which were published by the National Juvenile Detention Association (NJDA) between 1968 and 2004; and the Journal for Juvenile Justice Services, published by NPJS between 2004 and 2009.