To request a copy of any JJI report or publication, please email unojji@unomaha.edu.
You can also find a library of published JJI reports on Digital Commons.
Juvenile Justice Institute Publications
- 2025 | Juvenile Justice Institute Strategic Plan
- 2024 | Juvenile Justice Institute Annual Report
- 2022 | JJI 20 Years in Review
Briefs, Reports, and Other Publications
- 2022 | Annual Report 2020-2022 Evidence-based Nebraska Pre-and-Post Assessment Tool
- 2022 | Family Support Evaluation FY 2017-2021
- 2022 | School Absenteeism Guidebook for Program Development and Cultural Components
- 2021 | The Impact of COVID-19 on Community-based Juvenile Services Aid Programs
- 2021 | Perceptions of Youth on Juvenile Diversion
- 2021 | Annual Report 2020-2021 Juvenile Case Management System Definition and Data Fidelity Project
- 2021 | Hall County Detention Utilization Study 2015-2020
- 2021 | School Interventionists: FY 2015-2020
- 2021 | Perceptions of Youth on Juvenile Diversion
- 2020 | Restorative Justice Conferencing Programs: FY 2015-2020
- 2020 | Crisis Response Programs: FY 2015-2020
- 2020 | Nebraska's Community-based Aid Mental Health Services
- 2020 | Evaluation of System Improvement Funding: FY 2019-2020
- 2020 | Reliability and Predictive Validity of Screener/Assessment Tools in Nebraska Juvenile Diversion
- 2019 | Evidence-based Nebraska Annual Report 2019: Triumphs and Challenges of Evidence-based Nebraska and Examining Youth Served by Community-based Aid Programs Funded in FY 15-16
- 2019 | School Resource Officer Contacts and Perceptions
- 2019 | Recruiting and Retaining Higher Risk Youth in Promotion Prevention Programs FY 2018-2019
- 2019 | Drug Testing in Juvenile Diversion Programs
- 2017 | Evidence-based Nebraska Annual Report 2016-2017
- 2017 | Empirically Testing Collective Impact in Collaborative Initiatives
- 2016 | Nebraska Truancy & Absenteeism Programs 2015-2016
- 2016 | Evidence-based Nebraska Annual Report 2015-2016
- 2016 | Nebraska Alternative to Detention Programs 2015-2016
- 2015 | Nebraska's Strategic Plan for Victims and Survivors of Crime 2015-2020
- 2015 | Nebraska Juvenile Diversion Programs 2012-2015
- 2015 | Justice Assistance Grant Strategic Plan 2016-2018
- 2015 | The Lancaster County Juvenile Reentry Project - Follow-up Report
- 2015 | Analysis of the Nebraska Intake Risk Assessment Instrument
- 2014 | State of Juvenile Justice Report: 2014
- 2014 | Evidence-based Practice in Juvenile Justice: Nebraska White Paper
- 2014 | The Lancaster County Juvenile Reentry Project - Final Report
- 2013 | Kansas State DMC Assessment
- 2013 | Diversion in Nebraska: FY 2012/2013
- 2013 | Evaluation of Lancaster County Truancy Diversion Program – Final Evaluation
- 2013 | Juvenile Services Comprehensive Community Planning User Manual
- 2012 | Youth Reentering Lancaster County After Commitment to a State Youth Rehabilitation Center
- 2012 | Evaluation of Lancaster County Early Identification and Assessment Process – Final Evaluation
- 2012 | Nebraska State DMC Assessment
- 2010 | Evaluation of Lancaster County Early Assessment Process – Initial Evaluation
- 2010 | Evaluation of Lancaster County Alternatives to Juvenile Detention
Academic Publications
- Hobbs, A., Garman, J., & Brewer, S. (2025). Restorative diversion: victim youth conferencing effects on recidivism. Criminal Justice Studies, 38(2), 147–159. (Click here to view on publisher's website).
- Hobbs, A. & Dzieniszewska, M. (2021). The juvenile reentry mentoring project: Adaptations during COVID-19. Białostockie Studia Prawnicze, 26(6), 127-144. (Click here to view on publisher's website).
- Wylie, L. E., Clinkinbeard, S. S., & Hobbs, A. (2019). The application of risk–needs programming in a juvenile diversion program. Criminal Justice and Behavior, 46(8), 1128-1147. (Click here to view on publisher's website).
- Hobbs, A., Kotlaja, M., & Wylie, L. (2018). Absenteeism interventions: An approach for common definitions in statewide program evaluations. Justice Evaluation Journal, 1(2), 215–232. (Click here to view on publisher's website).
- Hobbs, A. M., Wulf-Ludden, T. L., & Stawhun, J. (2013). Assessing youth early in the juvenile justice system. OJJDP Journal of Juvenile Justice, 3(1), 80-96. (Click here to view in UNO’s Digital Commons).
Features and Media Mentions
- 2022 | Nebraska Juvenile Justice System Reform through Restorative Justice | Featured in ACJS Dialogue (Vol. 8, No. 1)