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See the Mental Health Courts Program and Justice and Mental Health Collaboration Program sections of the Bureau of Justice Assistance website for information. Also visit the GAINS Center for Behavioral Health and Justice Transformation and the Council of State Governments' Mental Health websites for additional information and resources.

Information about and access to findings from Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) recidivism studies is available on the Recidivism section of the BJS website. Also see BJS's Prisoner Recidivism Data Analysis Tool and the Reentry Trends in the U.S.: Recidivism page for additional information.

Information about mental health courts is available on the following websites:

• Bureau of Justice Assistance: Mental Health Courts Program
• Council of State Governments: Mental Health
• Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration: GAINS Center for Behavioral Health and Justice Transformation

Data on federal drug offenders sentenced to prison are available in the Federal Justice Statistics Series of reports from the Bureau of Justice Statistics. Also see the Research section of the U.S. Sentencing Commission website for additional federal sentencing data.

The National Institute of Justice's CrimeSolutions website provides results of rigorous research to inform practitioners and policy makers about what works in criminal justice, juvenile justice, and crime victim services.

Go to CrimeSolutions to find:

• Research on the effectiveness of programs and practices as reviewed by CrimeSolutions.gov researchers and reviewers
• Easily understandable ratings (Effective, Promising, No Effects) based on the evidence that indicates whether a program or practice achieves its goals
• Key program and practice information and research findings

For youth programs, see the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Model Program Guide.

The National Institute of Justice's CrimeSolutions website provides results of rigorous research to inform practitioners and policy makers about what works in criminal justice, juvenile justice, and crime victim services.

Go to CrimeSolutions to find:

• Research on the effectiveness of programs and practices as reviewed by CrimeSolutions researchers and reviewers
• Easily understandable ratings (Effective, Promising, No Effects) based on the evidence that indicates whether a program or practice achieves its goals
• Key program and practice information and research findings

For youth programs, see the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP)'s Model Program Guide.

The Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention's Model Programs Guide (MPG) includes program information on several juvenile topics. Access MPG's Diversion page for program information, the Diversion Programs Implementation Guide, and a Diversion literature review.

Information about restorative justice programs for juveniles is available in the following Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) resources:

• Effectiveness of Restorative Justice Principles in Juvenile Justice: A Meta-Analysis (Full Report and Research in Brief available)
• Model Programs Guide Literature Review: Restorative Justice

The Offender Reentry section of the National Institute of Justice (NIJ) website and the Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA)-supported National Reentry Resource Center website capture a number of resources, articles, and more related to offender reentry. Also visit the Reentry/Release section of NIJ's CrimeSolutions.gov site for access to important research on the effectiveness of a variety of reentry programs and practices.

You can also find additional resources in your state on the Reentry Services Directory website and in the Corrections: Reentry/Release section of our site.

For information about juvenile reentry, see these resources from the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention:

• In Focus: Juvenile Reentry
• Reentry Starts Here: A Guide for Youth in Long-Term Juvenile Corrections or Treatment Programs
• Model Programs Guide: Implementation Guide: Juvenile Reentry Programs

Information about the effectiveness of boot camps can be found in the following CrimeSolutions.gov profiles:

• Adult Boot Camps
• Juvenile Boot Camps

Also see the National Institute of Justice (NIJ) report, Correctional Boot Camps: Lessons From a Decade of Research and the NIJ Update in Corrections Today, Lessons Learned From 30 Years of Prison Programs. For additional information, visit the Courts: Alternatives to Incarceration section of our website.