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International research institutions:

Centro de Estudios de la Justicia de las Américas (CEJA)

UNICEF Innocenti Research Centre undertakes multi-disciplinary and policy relevant research on children's issues, including juvenile justice. The research is guided by the principles of UNICEF's medium-term strategic plan (MTSP) 2006-2009.



European Network of Masters in Children's Rights (ENMCR): Children's Rights Newsletter 9 (CR9) September 2008

National research institutions:

Belgium

The Katholieke Universiteit Leuven coordinates the Youth Research Platform (JOP) . This youth research platform is an interdisciplinary research group composed of: 'Tempus Omnia Revelat' (Vrije Universiteit Brussel), the Department of Social Welfare Studies (Universiteit Gent) and the Research Group on Juvenile Criminology (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven). It was initiated by the Flemish government to stimulate a systematic and interdisciplinary focus on youth research. The youth research platform has three central tasks: to create an inventory of existing youth research, to analise and synthesise existing youth research and to develop a survey, which will recurrently monitor the life-conditions and activities of young people.

Canada

The Institute for the Prevention of Crime, University of Ottawa seeks to bring together the best scientific knowledge from the most authoritative sources so that Canadians will enjoy the lowest rates of crime and victimization possible. It strives to make this knowledge accessible to policy makers, practitioners, universities and the media, and to develop the capacity of Canadians to use evidence based crime prevention. It collaborates with all orders of government, civil society and practitioners to prevent crime in an affordable, responsible and sustainable way. The IPC has undertaken research in relation to children and adolescents.

Chile

Universidad Diego Portales Facultad de Derecho Chile/ UNICEF, Database of Inter-American Jurisprudence on the Rights of the Child.

South Africa

Children's Rights Project, Community Law Centre, University of Cape Town. The Children’s Institute aims to harness the collective academic capability in the University to promote enquiry into the situation of children, to share this capacity through teaching and training programmes, and to present evidence to guide the development of laws, policies and interventions for children. In addition, in positioning itself as an independent broker of evidence, the Institute is also able to provide evidence to those who are advocating on behalf of children. 

Switzerland

The International Institute for the Rights of the Child (IDE) undertakes research on children's rights and offers a number of training programmes on children's rights, including training courses on juvenile justice for state officials. The IDE also runs the Master of Advanced Studies in Children's Rights (MASCR) in collaboration with Fribourg University Law Faculty and the Institut Universitaire Kurt Bösch (IUKB).

United Kingdom

Centre for Crime and Justice Studies 

The International Centre for Prison Studies, King's College, University of London seeks to assist governments and other relevant agencies to develop appropriate policies on prisons and the use of imprisonment. It carries out its work on a project or consultancy basis for international agencies, governmental and non-governmental organisations. It aims to make the results of its academic research and projects widely available to groups and individuals, both nationally and internationally, who might not normally use such work. These include policy makers, practitioners and administrators, the media and the general public. Such dissemination will help to increase an understanding of the purpose of prison and what can be expected of it.

The Edinburgh Study of Youth Transitions and Crime is a programme of research that aims to address a range of fundamental questions about the causes of criminal and risky behaviours in young people. The core of the programme is a major longitudinal study of a single cohort of around 4,000 young people who started secondary school in Edinburgh in the autumn of 1998.

United States of America

The Juvenile Justice Center (JJC), Suffolk University  was founded in 1998 with a grant from the US Department of Justice, Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Programs. It is now supported by Suffolk University Law School, government and private foundation grants. The JJC's mission is to provide vigorous, high-quality representation for children in the juvenile court system, using a multi-disciplinary approach that includes supportive social services and education advocacy. This approach to delinquency defense increases positive outcomes for court-involved youth. The Center also monitors and actively advocates on state policies that affect how youth are sent to court and the consequences of their court involvement.

The Department of Correctional and Juvenile Justice Studies in the College of Justice and Safety, Eastern Kentucky University offers Associate of Arts, Bachelor of Science, and Master of Science degrees in Correctional and Juvenile Justice Studies. These degree programmes are designed for persons with career interests in adult corrections, juvenile justice or related human service areas and are separate from the various Criminal Justice and Police Studies degrees offered in the College of Justice and Safety. 

National Center for Youth Law

National Center on Education, Disability and Juvenile Justice (EDJJ)

International Centre for Criminal Law Reform and Criminal Justice Policy - Juvenile Justice

The Burns Institute for Juvenile Justice Fairness and Equity

Center for Children's Advocacy (USA, Connecticut)

Juvenile law center (USA, Pennsylvania)