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The Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) is an office of the United States Department of Justice and a component of the Office of Justice Programs. The OJJDP publishes the JRFC Databook on even numbered years for information on youth detention.
The act created the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) within the Department of Justice to administer grants for juvenile crime-combating programs (currently only about US$900,000 a year), gather national statistics on juvenile crime, fund research on youth crime and administer four anti-confinement mandates regarding ...
The Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention indicates that 15% of juvenile arrests occurred for rape in 2006, and 12% were clearance (resolved by an arrest). [90] The total number of juvenile arrests in 2006 for forcible rape was 3,610 with 2% being female and 36% being under the age of 15 years. [90]
ASHEVILLE — New data presented at a recent Juvenile Crime Prevention Council meeting shows that a disproportionate number of complaints against Buncombe County’s Black youths are filed into ...
Hamilton County Juvenile Court Judge Kari L. Bloom, Wednesday, Sept. 13, 2023. Bloom was elected in 2020 for a six-year term. In January, she became the administrative judge overseeing day-to-day ...
Opponents argue that juvenile crime rates had been coming down since the “Raise the Age” law was passed in 2016 before rising during the COVID-19 pandemic, and some question whether the new ...
The Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act of 1974 (JJDPA) is a United States federal law providing formula grants to states that follow a series of federal protections on the care and treatment of youth in the juvenile justice and criminal justice systems.
1983 – A juvenile boot camp program was designed to introduce delinquent youth to a lifestyle of structure and discipline. 1992 – A community prevention grants program gave start-up money to communities for local juvenile crime prevention plans.