• Organization: Department of Justice
• Updated: 1995-03-31T00:00:00

This data collection, the first survey of youths confined to long-term, state-operated institutions, was undertaken to complement existing Children in Custody censuses. It also serves as a...

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• Organization: Department of Justice
• Updated: 2020-02-27T10:31:40

Research over the past decade has identified a sub-group of traumatized youths who have had extensive exposure to multiple types of victimization, interpersonal violence, and loss. These...

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• Organization: Department of Justice
• Updated: 2005-11-04T00:00:00

This is an investigation of a cohort of high school-aged youth in Columbia, South Carolina. Surveys were conducted in three consecutive years from 1979 to 1981 in nine high schools....

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• Organization: Department of Justice
• Updated: 2016-01-13T15:09:02

This study was an evaluation of Utah's 4-H Mentoring/Youth and Families with Promise (YFP) program, a statewide 4-H mentoring program designed for at-risk youths. Both the degree to which the YFP...

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• Organization: Department of Justice
• Updated: 2021-09-15T08:29:08

The focus of this study is on the relationship between participants in a mentoring program for youths at risk and program staff. A motive for this study is to determine the existence of a genuine...

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• Organization: U.S. Department of Health & Human Services
• Updated: 2025-09-06

for example, 12th grade aged dropouts were more likely to be current cigarette users (55.9 vs. 20.2 percent), be alcohol users (41.1 vs. 33.7 percent), engage in binge alcohol use (31.8 vs. 22.1...

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• Organization: U.S. Department of Health & Human Services
• Updated: 2025-09-06

This issue of the National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH) Report presents combined 2002 to 2010 data to examine substance use patterns among

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• Organization: U.S. Department of Health & Human Services
• Updated: 2025-09-06

This report uses 2002 to 2010 National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH) to assess past month binge alcohol use, marijuana use, and nonmedical use of prescription-type psychotherapeutics among...

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• Organization: Department of Justice
• Updated: 2006-03-30T00:00:00

This study was undertaken to measure the criminal behavior of gangs, including their involvement in delinquent behavior such as drug use and drug trafficking activities, and to compare gang...

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• Organization: Department of Justice
• Updated: 2002-06-07T00:00:00

This data collection examines the interrelationships among drug/alcohol use, childhood sexual or physical abuse, and encounters with the juvenile justice system. To identify high-risk...

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• Organization: Department of Justice
• Updated: 2013-12-16T10:49:43

In the fall of 2002 the Juvenile Justice Fund (JJF), a nonprofit organization whose mission is to positively impact the lives of youth and their families who come into contact with the juvenile...

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• Organization: U.S. Department of Health & Human Services
• Updated: 2025-09-06

This report uses 2002 to 2010 National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH) to assess past month alcohol, cigarette, illicit drug use among youth aged 12 to 17 living with a veteran father and...

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• Organization: U.S. Department of Health & Human Services
• Updated: 2023-07-25

Youth data for the sixth wave of the National Youth Survey are contained in this collection. This research project, which was designed to gain a better understanding of both conventional...

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• Organization: Department of Justice
• Updated: 2005-03-04T00:00:00

The purpose of this research was to assist policymakers in determining if the targeted youths affected by the waiver laws passed by the Maryland legislature in 1994 and 1998 were being...

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• Organization: Department of Justice
• Updated: 2021-07-27T09:53:39

The goal of this mixed-methods study was to evaluate the effectiveness of community based cross-age mentoring to reduce negative outcomes related to violence exposure/engagement and promote...

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• Organization: Department of Justice
• Updated: 2005-11-04T00:00:00

This study investigated the ways in which active offenders and their behavior patterns are related to individual characteristics. Data were collected to explore topics such as the nature of...

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• Organization: Department of Justice
• Updated: 2014-02-06T11:26:28

The NLSY97 standalone data files are intended to be used by crime researchers for analyses without requiring supplementation from the main NLSY97 data set. The data contain age-based calendar year...

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• Organization: U.S. Department of Health & Human Services
• Updated: 2023-07-25

This dataset contains parent and youth data for the National Youth Survey. Youths and one of their parents or legal guardians were interviewed in early 1977 about events and behavior occurring...

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• Organization: U.S. Department of Health & Human Services
• Updated: 2025-09-06

This report and the detailed tables present results pertaining to mental health from the 2012 National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH), an annual survey of the civilian, noninstitutionalized...

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• Organization: U.S. Department of Health & Human Services
• Updated: 2025-09-06

This report present results from the 2013 National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH) Mental Health Findings, including national estimates of the prevalence of past year mental disorders and...

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