Welcome

 Global Youth Justice, LLC strives to promote solutions which alleviate some of the world's most pressing social problems. Reducing crime and incarceration rates around the world is paramount. We support the empowerment of youth to become global youth justice champions and activists for positive social change.  Youth must be at the forefront in the struggle to overcome some of our most pressing social problems and global challenges.  We strive to improve the quality of life for humans through reducing crime and incarceration rates around the globe.  We achieve this through favorable outcomes that result from promoting the global expansion of quality juvenile justice programs commonly referred to as youth court, teen court, peer court, student court, youth peer jury, and youth peer panel.  

 While there exists greater linkages today between nations and peoples than our planet has likely ever known, we still see all around us an ever-increasing divide between the rich and poor.  This is especially transparent in the disproportionate representation of the poor in the juvenile justice and criminal justice system. Global Youth Justice, LLC believes that youth have the limitless potential to volunteer and work side-by-side with adults who have empowered them to bridge this divide and work toward a shared vision of human dignity, greater equity, freedom, basic security, and justice.

 If negative peer pressure is a primary factor in leading some youth to commit a crime, offense and/or violation, then positive peer pressure can be harnessed and redirected to become a positive force and lead other youth to adhere to the rule of law and become more productive citizens.   These peer justice and youth empowerment programs harness positive peer pressure and utilize it in a peer judgment setting to adjust the anti-social, delinquent, and criminal behavior of other youth.  The peer judgment and positive peer pressure aspects of these youth justice programs are the two primary programmatic elements which separate these juvenile justice programs from all the others. 

Scott Bernard Peterson

President and Founder

Global Youth Justice, LLC