National Juvenile Court Data Archive

This program furthers the Department's mission by providing grants and cooperative agreements for research and evaluation activities to organizations that OJJDP designates.

The National Juvenile Court Data Archive's goal is to maintain and expand the current program, and to continue providing detailed information on juvenile court case processing of delinquency and status offense cases to assist research and policymaking efforts. This proposal requests funds and describes activities for year 2 of the 3-year grant period. The Archive will continue to pursue three general objectives: data collection and processing, data use and dissemination, and data quality improvement and technical assistance. Data collection and processing involves extracting research data files from administrative data sets, producing national estimates, and documenting and preserving data. Data use and dissemination are achieved through producing the Juvenile Court Statistics reports, preparing data for OJJDP's Statistical Briefing Book, the Archive's website that facilitates use of Archive files, and responding to information requests. Data quality improvement and technical assistance are addressed through efforts to expand the sample of reporting courts, monitor data quality, provide technical assistance to state and local agencies to help them expand/improve their information systems and information sharing capabilities, and improve the national estimates. The Archive will also conduct a Dependency Court Data Collection Feasibility Study. Performance measures are the percent of deliverables completed on time and that meet OJJDP expectations.

CA/NCF

This program furthers the Department's mission by providing grants and cooperative agreements for research and evaluation activities to organizations that OJJDP designates.

The National Juvenile Court Data Archive's goal is to maintain and expand the current program, and to continue providing detailed information on juvenile court case processing of delinquency and status offense cases to assist research and policymaking efforts. This proposal requests funds and describes activities for year 3 of the 3-year grant period. The Archive will continue to pursue three general objectives: data collection and processing, data use and dissemination, and data quality improvement and technical assistance. Data collection and processing involves extracting research data files from administrative data sets, producing national estimates, and documenting and preserving data. Data use and dissemination are achieved through producing the Juvenile Court Statistics reports, preparing data for OJJDP's Statistical Briefing Book, the Archive's website that facilitates use of Archive files, and responding to information requests. Data quality improvement and technical assistance are addressed through efforts to expand the sample of reporting courts, monitor data quality, provide technical assistance to state and local agencies to help them expand/improve their information systems and information sharing capabilities, and improve the national estimates. Further efforts will be undertaken to expand the estimates to distinguish cases involving Hispanic youth. The Archive will also conduct a Dependency Court Data Collection Feasibility Study. Performance measures are the percent of deliverables completed on time and that meet OJJDP expectations.

CA/NCF