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09/15/2025

Brand new juvenile justice literature reviews (written by staff at Development Services Group, Inc) have been posted to OJJDP's Model Programs Guide!

Mental Health: How the Juvenile Justice System Addresses Youths' Mental Health: https://ojjdp.ojp.gov/model-programs-guide/literature-reviews/how-the-juvenile-justice-system-addresses-youths-mental-health

Mental Health: The Influence of Mental Health on Juvenile Justice System Involvement: https://ojjdp.ojp.gov/model-programs-guide/literature-reviews/influence-of-mental-health-on-juvenile-justice-system-involvement

Status Offenses: https://ojjdp.ojp.gov/model-programs-guide/literature-reviews/status-offenses

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02/18/2025

On January 31st, staff from Development Services Group, Inc (past and present) gathered to remember and honor the great Prentice Johnson, who passed away at the end of December. He was loved by so many who he worked with over the years, as evidenced by how many great people were at the dinner and how many wonderful stories were told about him 🥹

11/21/2024

Last week, Development Services Group, Inc staff presented at the American Society of Criminology (ASC) Annual Conference, including presentations on the updates to the National Institute of Justice's CrimeSolutions website (https://crimesolutions.ojp.gov/) and the analytical work being done for State Department's Global Terrorism Trends and Analysis Center (GTTAC).

03/27/2024

Development Services Group, Inc staff produced three new literature reviews for OJJDP's Model Programs Guide!

Check out our updated Model Programs Guide for three new literature reviews that discuss:

- Age Boundaries in Youth Justice
- Youth Gun Violence
- Youth in the Adult Criminal Justice System

Learn more and access the research: https://ojjdp.ojp.gov/news/juvjust/ojjdp-updates-model-programs-guide-three-literature-reviews?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mpg-litreview

12/20/2023

The National Institute of Justice (NIJ) recently funded Development Services Group, Inc, to evaluate a promising nationwide U.S. Department of Justice–funded program to combat hate, “Not in Our Town.” DSG nonprofit partner, the Institute for Community Studies (ICS), will carry out the work, under the tutelage of Dr. Stephen V. Gies, DSG’s—and ICS’s—director of research and evaluation. The three-year study will begin on Jan. 1, 2024.

Not in Our Town (NIOT) was developed in response to the 2018 mass shooting at Pittsburgh. Pa.’s Tree of Life Synagogue. ICS is evaluating the NIOT Hate and Bias Action Teams candidate model.

NIOT uses film and other media to educate, raise awareness, and spark dialog, with the goal of helping diverse community groups expand the impact of their mutual engagement. Notably, the NIOT evaluation marks the nation’s first scientifically reviewed anti-hate initiative.

Introduce yourself to NIOT’s work by viewing Repairing the World: Stories From the Tree of Life, a documentary about Pittsburgh's community response to hate in the aftermath of the deadliest antisemitic attack in U.S. history.

The Zimmerman Foundation is co-funding DSG's mixed-methods evaluability assessment of Not in Our Town through a grant to the Institute for Community Studies.

NIOT project and public television documentary that profiles a community overcoming trauma in the aftermath of the attack on three Jewish congregations at the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh, PA.

12/01/2023

Congratulations to our colleagues on the GTTAC project as the U.S. Department of State has now released the 2022 Country Reports and Statistical Annex, supported by GTTAC data. Visit https://GTTAC.com for more details.

10/20/2023

https://gttac.com/2023/10/20/2471/

Analysis of Hamas, the Palestine Islamic Jihad, and Terrorist Attacks on Israel On October 7, 2023, Hamas militants launched an attack in Israel, unprecedented in its logistics, resulting in the tragic loss of more than 1,400 lives, including civilians, women, and children, and leaving behind unimag...

10/02/2023

GTTAC Speaker Series Presentation at 12 p.m. today. Join us! https://tinyurl.com/54hkarmb

09/12/2023

The Global Terrorism Trends and Analysis Center (GTTAC) releases The Counterterrorism Brief: Focus on Nigeria. Now available on www.GTTAC.com

07/10/2023

From a National Institute of Justice-funded project, researchers at Development Services Group, Inc have published a research brief on the demographics of far-right extremist perpetrators in the United States: https://dsgonline.com/2023/FarRightPerpetratorsBrief_HealyAnastasioClemons_%20May2023.pdf

06/26/2023

Join our Speaker Series presentation at 11 a.m. today with Dr. Arie Perliger and Tess Hemmila! "The Language of Far-Right Extremism in the U.S."

https://tinyurl.com/6pybvnvp

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06/15/2023

Terrorism and Armed Conflict in Democratic Republic of the Congo Worsening, Details Maryland Int’l Research Firm Brief

Bethesda, Md.— Development Services Group, Inc and its Global Terrorism Trends and Analysis Center (GTTAC) have published a research brief on the worsening terror situation in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (the DRC).

The six-page circular uses the latest data through the end of 2022 and includes elements such as the number of incidents, the perpetrators of these acts, their tactics, the victims, and the locations.

This is the first of what GTTAC expects to be a series of research briefs outlining key issues of terrorism and armed conflict.

Given the strategic global importance of mining in the DRC, we have included a section on mineral exploitation and conflict.

You can access the brief here:https://gttac.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/GTTAC-Terrorism-Research-Brief_DRCONGO_May2023.pdf