Global Youth Justice strives to promote solutions which alleviate some of the world's most pressing social problems. We support the empowerment of youth to serve as youth justice champions and advocates for a more peaceful world. We strive to improve the quality of life for humans through reducing crime and incarceration rates around the globe.  We initially achieve this through favorable outcomes that result from promoting the global expansion of quality youth justice/juvenile justice diversion programs commonly referred to as youth court, teen court, peer court, student court, youth peer jury and youth peer panel.  A record 1,155 plus local communities around the world now operate one of these youth justice/juvenile justice diversion programs.

   While there exist 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 and/or those with a disease in the juvenile justice and criminal justice system. Global Youth Justice champions local juvenile justice interefforts which harness the tremendous 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. Youth must be at the forefront in the struggle to overcome some of our most pressing social problems and global challenges.

  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/or criminal behavior of other youth.  The peer judgment and positive peer pressure aspects of these programs are the two (2) primary programmatic elements which separate these juvenile justice diversion programs from all of the others. 

Making the Time for Juvenile Crime.