Former East Baton Rouge Juvenile Court Judge Kathleen Stewart Richey will be Louisiana’s first children’s ombudsman, a new position meant to serve as a watchdog for children who depend on government services ranging from foster care to juvenile prisons. Richey will begin in … Read More
Author Archives: Jamar Little
Applying Research to Practice: A Practitioner’s Framework for Prevention Programming
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Targeted violence is increasingly threatening the safety and security of communities throughout the United States. Targeted violence refers to any violence against a specific target designed to intimidate or coerce a broader population, regardless of motive. Targeted violence … Read More
An Environmental Scan of Cybercrime Measurement: Recommendations for the National Crime Victimization Survey
Executive Summary The Better Cybercrime Metrics Act directs the Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS), in coordination with the Bureau of the Census, to include questions relating to cybercrime victimization on the National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS). This report, developed through … Read More
Meaningful Engagement of People with Lived Experience
Since the early 1990s, the disability rights movement has rallied behind the slogan: “Nothing about us without us!” What does that mean? It means that people who are impacted by an issue are most likely to know what they need … Read More
Child Safety Forward Implementation Study Final Report
Executive Summary Initiative Overview In October 2019, the U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Justice Programs, Office for Victims of Crime (OVC) launched Child Safety Forward (CSF), a three-year demonstration initiative to develop multidisciplinary strategies and responses to address serious … Read More
Indian Child Welfare (ICW)Quarterly and Annual Report
ICW Reporting Form Guides BIA’s decision making. The data collected: What is the ICWA Report? Tribes or Tribal organizations receiving grants under ICWA arerequired to submit data on a quarterly and annual basis (25CFR 23.47) Section on Tribal ICWA programs … Read More
Engaging Survivors of Human Trafficking
Survivor Engagement in the Anti-Trafficking Field: History, Lessons Learned, and Looking Forward Survivors of human trafficking play a vital role in combating this crime. Their perspective and experience should be taken into consideration to better address this crime and to … Read More
Extraterritorial Child Sexual Abuse
Extraterritorial child sexual abuse, often misleadingly referred to as “child sex tourism,” involves United States citizens or lawful permanent resident aliens who either: 1) travel to a foreign country with a motivating purpose of engaging in any “illicit sexual conduct” … Read More
Sextortion, Crowdsourcing, Enticement, and Coercion
Because offenders use a variety of techniques to manipulate minors into producing child sexual abuse material (CSAM), the child exploitation threat is constantly evolving. Some of those techniques include engaging in sextortion and crowdsourcing schemes which use enticement and coercion … Read More
Grand Resource: Help for Grandfamilies Impacted by Opioids and Other Substance Use Part 2
More than 2.6 million children are raised by grandparents, aunts, uncles, siblings, other extended family and close family friends who step forward to care for them when parents cannot. With the rise in heroin and other opioid use, more relatives … Read More