This annotated bibliography contains listings of publications and Web sites that address juvenile justice risk/need assessment and also Web sites that address juvenile justice issues in general.
The 37 listings for juvenile justice risk/need assessment contain the author(s), title, and in the case of journal articles, the journal's name, issue, and page numbers. The annotations are of variable length. Among the topics addressed in the listings are the assessment of the risk to recidivate, the validity of juvenile offending risk assessment across gender and ethnicity, predicting the cumulative recidivism of juvenile detainees, case studies of evidence-based juvenile justice programs, and risk assessment factors for various types of offending behavior. The listings of seven Web sites with juvenile assessment tools provide only the name of the assessment tool and the Web site address. The listing of 17 Web sites that address juvenile justice issues in general contain brief descriptions of the contents of each Web site.