Center on Juvenile and Criminal Justice

What Center on Juvenile and Criminal Justice does

The Center on Juvenile and Criminal Justice (CJCJ) is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit research and direct services organization founded in 1985 and headquartered at 424 Guerrero Street, Suite A, San Francisco, California. The organization pursues a hybrid operating model that combines community-based direct services with policy research, technical assistance, and legislative advocacy aimed at reducing reliance on incarceration and addressing racial disparities within California's criminal and juvenile justice systems. Its direct service programs include Cameo House (women's residential services), Community Options for Youth (COY), the Detention Diversion Advocacy Program (DDAP), the Expert Sentencing Support Services, the Juvenile Collaborative Reentry Unit (JCRU), and the No Violence Alliance (NoVA). CJCJ also runs the California Sentencing Institute (CASI), an interactive data visualization platform launched in 2009 that provides county-by-county visual comparisons of law enforcement practices and incarceration trends across California's 58 counties.

CJCJ's revenue model is nonprofit grant- and donation-funded rather than transaction- or subscription-based: the organization solicits donations via Network for Good, likely receives foundation and government grants to support its direct service programs, and provides technical assistance to California county agencies. Its core technology is the CASI platform, a county-level sentencing and incarceration data visualization tool; the organization does not offer a unified software product suite, and there is no disclosed AI/ML, app, or API layer. CJCJ publishes fact sheets, reports, and blog posts on emerging California criminal justice issues (e.g., Proposition 36 outcomes, juvenile realignment, sheriff accountability) and conducts legislative testimony before bodies such as the California Assembly Budget Subcommittee.

The organization serves two primary customer segments: (1) justice-involved youth and adults in California communities, who access direct services around treatment, housing, education, and reentry support; and (2) California counties, policymakers, and advocacy organizations, who consume CJCJ's research, technical assistance, and policy expertise. All operations are domestic and concentrated in California, with no disclosed geographic expansion plans beyond the state. Strategic partnerships with the Vera Institute of Justice, NYU Jail Data Initiative, National Center for Youth Law, W. Haywood Burns Institute, and multiple California county public defender offices provide data and research collaboration; the leadership team is anchored by Executive Director Daniel Macallair (31 years of tenure).

Name

Center on Juvenile and Criminal Justice

Legal name

Center on Juvenile and Criminal Justice

Website

https://cjcj.org

Company type

Private

Founded year

1985

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

CJCJ is a San Francisco-based 501(c)(3) nonprofit founded in 1985 that delivers direct reentry and justice-involved youth services, policy research, technical assistance, and the California Sentencing Institute data platform to California counties and reform advocates statewide.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Juvenile and Criminal Justice Reform Services

NAICS

Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations (813), Legal Services (5411), Courts (92211)

SIC

Services-Legal Services (8111)

akta.pro primary industry

Juvenile Justice System (Courts & Detention) (BPAIAFAF)

akta.pro secondary industries

Community Corrections (Probation, Parole & Reentry) (BPAIAFAE), Alternative Dispute Resolution & Restorative Justice Programs (BPAIAFAL)

Keywords

• Criminal justice reform
• Juvenile justice services
• Policy research analysis
• Reentry support services
• Sentencing data analytics

Headquarters

HQ city

San Francisco

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B and B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels7 records

Core offering

Center on Juvenile and Criminal Justice (CJCJ) is a nonprofit organization that delivers direct community-based services—such as housing, treatment, education, and reentry support—to formerly incarcerated adults and justice-involved youth. It also conducts criminal and juvenile justice policy research, publishes reports and fact sheets, and provides technical assistance and data resources (including the California Sentencing Institute interactive mapping tool) to California counties and policymakers.

Product overview

Center on Juvenile and Criminal Justice (CJCJ) is a non-profit policy research and direct services organization, not a technology product company. It does not offer a unified software platform or product suite. Instead, CJCJ provides research publications, an interactive California Sentencing Institute (CASI) data visualization tool, and direct service programs including Cameo House, Community Options for Youth (COY), Detention Diversion Advocacy Program (DDAP), Expert Sentencing Support Services, Juvenile Collaborative Reentry Unit (JCRU), and No Violence Alliance (NoVA). The organization's core offerings are advocacy, policy research, and community-based services focused on reducing incarceration and improving outcomes for justice-involved individuals.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• California Sentencing Institute (CASI): Interactive data resource providing county-by-county visual comparisons of law enforcement practices, incarceration rates, and trends across California.

Products and services

• Cameo House & Women's Services Residential and supportive services program for women and mothers involved in the criminal justice system, focused on housing, treatment, parenting support, and reentry.
• Community Options for Youth (COY) Community-based program serving youth at risk of or involved in the juvenile justice system, providing alternatives to incarceration through education, mentoring, and family support.
• Detention Diversion Advocacy Program (DDAP) Advocacy and case-management program designed to divert youth away from juvenile detention and toward community-based supports.
• Expert Sentencing Support Services Expert witness and sentencing-related consulting and testimony services provided to defense attorneys and courts in California.
• Juvenile Collaborative Reentry Unit (JCRU) Collaborative reentry program supporting juveniles returning to the community from juvenile correctional facilities through coordinated case management and services.
• No Violence Alliance (NoVA) Community-based violence prevention and intervention program targeting at-risk youth and adults to reduce involvement in violence and the justice system.
• Technical Assistance Capacity-building and consulting services delivered to California counties and government agencies implementing juvenile and criminal justice reforms.
• California Sentencing Institute (CASI) Publicly accessible interactive data resource providing county-by-county visual comparisons of California law enforcement practices, incarceration rates, and sentencing trends for policymakers, researchers, advocates, and the public.

Quantifiable outcome

• County facilities operating at 35% capacity with 8,200+ vacant beds available for realignment
• +1 more outcomes

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature1 record

Partnerships

Seven partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• National Center for Youth LawcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerCo-authored report on prosecution of youth as adults, documenting racial disparities in direct file practices and advocating for Proposition 57 reforms to end direct file.
• W. Haywood Burns InstitutecoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerJoint research partnership examining prosecution of youth as adults, focusing on county-level disparities and disproportionate impact on youth of color.
• Public Defender Offices (multiple California counties)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerCollaboration with Alameda, Contra Costa, Kern, Monterey, Riverside, Sacramento, Santa Clara, and San Diego public defender offices to gather data on Proposition 36 implementation and treatment outcomes.
• NYU Jail Data InitiativeminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerData sharing partnership providing individual-level data on jail populations to support research on Proposition 36 charging patterns and racial disparities.
• Californians for Safety and JusticeminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerCo-authored Prop 36 Promised Treatment report analyzing the gap between promised treatment and actual incarceration outcomes.
• Vera Institute of JusticeminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerResearch collaboration on Proposition 36 implementation, treatment capacity, and California criminal justice data analysis.
• San Francisco State UniversityminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerSFSU Partnership to Build Future Justice Leaders - educational partnership supporting formerly incarcerated students.

Scale indicators5 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• Prison Policy Initiative: Prison Policy Initiative is a national criminal justice research and advocacy organization that produces comparable data-driven reports and visualizations on incarceration trends; it operates at a national scale but addresses overlapping issues of sentencing reform, jail/prison population data, and alternatives to incarceration.
• Justice Policy Institute: Justice Policy Institute is a national nonprofit that conducts policy research and advocacy on juvenile and criminal justice reform; it is directly comparable to CJCJ in its focus on reducing incarceration, addressing racial disparities, and producing research to influence state policy.
• National Center for Youth Law: NCYL is a core CJCJ partner co-authoring reports on direct file practices and Proposition 57; both organizations are California-based nonprofits that combine legal advocacy, policy research, and direct representation for justice-involved youth.
• The Sentencing Project: The Sentencing Project is a national criminal justice research and advocacy organization that publishes research on sentencing trends, racial disparities, and juvenile justice—overlapping heavily with CJCJ's research and policy focus but operating nationally rather than California-only.
• Californians for Safety and Justice: Californians for Safety and Justice co-authored the Prop 36 Promised Treatment report with CJCJ and is a similarly California-focused criminal justice reform advocacy organization working on Proposition implementation, sentencing reform, and county-level technical assistance.
• W. Haywood Burns Institute: The Burns Institute is a core CJCJ partner that focuses specifically on reducing racial disparities in juvenile justice systems—both organizations conduct research on disproportionate minority contact, prosecute the prosecution of youth as adults, and provide technical assistance to California counties.

Broad incumbents

• Vera Institute of Justice: Vera is a nationally prominent criminal justice research and reform nonprofit that partners with CJCJ on Proposition 36 implementation research; it operates at a larger scale and broader geographic footprint but addresses overlapping issues of sentencing reform, incarceration alternatives, and criminal justice data analysis.
• Brennan Center for Justice: Brennan Center is a much larger national law and policy organization that works on criminal justice reform, voting rights, and constitutional issues; it overlaps with CJCJ on criminal justice policy research and sentencing reform but is much broader in scope and substantially better resourced.
• Human Rights Watch (US Program / Criminal Justice): HRW's US criminal justice division investigates conditions in juvenile and adult correctional facilities and publishes reports on racial disparities and incarceration practices, making it a comparable advocacy organization in terms of policy reporting even though it operates globally with much greater resources.

Emerging players

• NYU Jail Data Initiative: NYU's Jail Data Initiative is a core data-sharing partner of CJCJ; both organizations collect and publish jail population data to support research on charging patterns and racial disparities, making this an emerging peer in the criminal justice data infrastructure space.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

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Number of profiles

Profiles6 records

Funding overview

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