📣 Call for Submissions: AAJJRS Scholar’s Digest 📣
Have a juvenile justice or youth victimization project, idea, dataset, or practice insight you’ve been meaning to share—but it’s not a full journal article (yet)?
AAJJRS invites short, accessible submissions (300–600 words) for an upcoming issue of the AAJJRS Scholar’s Digest on the theme:
➡️ What’s Next in Juvenile Justice and Youth Victimization: Research, Data, and Practice
Submission formats include:
📝Research Snapshot
📝From the Field
📝"Methods Minute"
📝Student Scholar Spotlight
📝Research Policy-to-Practice Brief
Details
📌Citations are optional; if included, please follow APA Style (7th edition).
📌Deadline: March 5, 2026
📌Submit questions or pieces to: aajjrs@klkresearchgroup.com
The Scholar’s Digest provides a low-burden, timely forum to share works-in-progress, practice insights, and emerging ideas—without the demands of a formal peer-reviewed journal. Contributors can list articles on a CV as professional service, scholarly outreach, or invited publication.
Submissions are welcome from members and prospective members. Prospective members with accepted submissions will receive a copy of the issue in which their work appears.
PUBLICATIONS
AAJJRS Wants You!
As an AAJJRS member, you have the opportunity to influence our upcoming scholarly journals. Apply today for a position as a journal editor or editorial board member!
- Journal Editors: Two (2) editors per journal.
- Journal Editorial Board: Up to fifteen (15) members per journal. Selected members may serve on more than one board.
Peer-Reviewed Journals and Newsletter
Journal of Juvenile Justice
Journal of Delinquency Prevention and Intervention
Journal of Delinquency Prevention and Intervention
The peer-reviewed multidisciplinary journal features quantitative and qualitative research on various juvenile justice issues, including policing youth, deinstitutionalization of status offenders, racial and ethnic disproportionality and disparities in the juvenile justice system, youth in juvenile and adult jails, juvenile probation, and transfers to adult court.
Journal of Delinquency Prevention and Intervention
Journal of Delinquency Prevention and Intervention
Journal of Delinquency Prevention and Intervention
The peer-reviewed multidisciplinary journal features quantitative and qualitative research on various delinquency prevention and intervention issues, including truancy prevention and intervention, evidence-based mentoring, youth risk and protective factors, community-based youth and family services, and risk and responsivity assessments.
Journal of Youth Victimization
The peer-reviewed multidisciplinary journal features quantitative and qualitative research on various youth victimization issues, including exposure to violence, physical and sexual child abuse, and Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children (CSEC), such as human trafficking, violent crimes against children and youth, and missing and exploited children.
AAJJRS Scholar's Digest
Features scholarly articles on various juvenile justice, delinquency prevention, and youth victimization issues, and book reviews.
Disclaimer: The opinions expressed herein are those of the American Association of Juvenile Justice Researchers & Scholars and do not represent the views of any local, state, or federal government agency, organization, or research entity.