New York Community Trust: Realigning Youth Justice

Realignment is the process of diverting offenders from state facilities and shifting interventions to community-based programs, often under the direct or indirect management of local government. Over the past two decades, youth justice realignment has attracted growing attention in New York and elsewhere due to crowded facilities, strained budgets, and the persistent failure of the justice system to reduce recidivism. The concept of realignment, however, is much older than 20 years. The Research and Evaluation Center at John Jay College of Criminal Justice is assessing the state of the art in justice realignment. Researchers are reviewing the literature on realignment and other related initiatives and compiling the results into a report on the best approaches to practice and policy. Results from the project will be published by John Jay College and presented at future meetings and conferences.

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Project Staff

Jeffrey Butts, PI
Jennifer Ortiz
Rhoda Ramdeen
Douglas Evans (consultant)

Funding

$30,000. New York Community Trust.
Roderick Jenkins, Program Officer