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The Community-Based Child Abuse and Neglect Prevention Grants was a program that was originally authorized by Sections 402 to 409 of the Continuing Appropriations Act for Fiscal Year 1985 (Public Law 98-473). [2] CAPTA was completely rewritten in the Child Abuse Prevention, Adoption and Family Services Act of 1988 (Public Law 100-294). [3]
The Cambridge-Somerville Youth Study was the first large-scale randomised experiment in the history of criminology. [1] It was commissioned in 1936 by Dr. Richard Cabot, a Boston physician who proposed an experiment to evaluate the effects of early intervention in preventing or reducing rates of juvenile delinquency.
The "DMC" requirement was added in the JJDPA in the 1992 amendments to the Act, [8] the Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Reauthorization Act of 1992 (Pub. L. 93-415). [9] The 1992 reauthorization also established new requirements for states to identify and address gender bias.
The Florida Department of Juvenile Justice (FDJJ) is a state agency of Florida that operates juvenile detention centers. Its headquarters are in the Knight Building in Tallahassee . [ 2 ] [ 3 ]
The Florida Statutes are the codified, statutory laws of Florida; it currently has 49 titles. A chapter in the Florida Statutes represents all relevant statutory laws on a particular subject. [ 1 ] The statutes are the selected reproduction of the portions of each session law, which are published in the Laws of Florida , that have general ...
Community crime prevention relates to interventions designed to bring reform to the social conditions that influence, and encourage, offending in residential communities. Community crime prevention has a focus on both the social and local institutions found within communities which can influence crime rates, specifically juvenile delinquency .
The system that is currently operational in the United States was created under the 1974 Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act. The Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act called for a "deinstitutionalization" of juvenile delinquents. The act required that states holding youth within adult prisons for status offenses remove ...
Multisystemic therapy (MST) is a home and community based intervention for juvenile offenders and is used predominately to address violent offending, sex offending, delinquency, and substance abuse. [7]