Criminal Justice

Our work in Criminal
and Youth Justice

The Texas Policy Lab is supporting state and local agencies in Texas focused on a variety of system reform efforts in criminal and youth justice. Our projects include assessing the impact of workforce reentry programs on employment and recidivism, analyzing and visualizing data to inform youth justice reform decisions, and supporting the design and evaluation of new programs for justice-involved youth.

Partnerships and projects:

Re-entry Roadmap Program

Acceleron Learning

Criminal Justice

Partnerships and projects:

Re-entry Roadmap Program

Stars and Stripes Re-entry Program

Executive Dashboard for TJJD

Harris County Task Force to Transform Youth Justice

A New Serious Offenders Program

Analysis of lifetime justice involvement

Measuring racial disparities in detention

Impact evaluation of programs and practices

Changing characteristics of youth in residential programs

The changing face of firearm-related contacts

Exploiting detailed data from the APEX behavioral treatment program

Evaluation of juvenile residential programs

Evaluation of diversionary programs for Harris County youth

Youth victims of sex trafficking involved in the juvenile justice system

Analysis of the effects of short-term detentions of low-risk youth