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2. Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention

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   The OJJDP publishes the JRFC Databook on even numbered years for information on youth detention. [1] OJJDP sponsors research, program, and training initiatives; develops priorities and goals and sets policies to guide federal juvenile justice issues. OJJDP also disseminates information about juvenile justice issues and awards funds to states to ...

3. Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act - Wikipedia

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   Specifically, eligible states—those that comply with the Act's terms, "establish plans for the administration of juvenile justice in their states and agree to submit annual reports to OJJDP concerning their progress in implementing the plans"—are allocated annual formula grants based on a formula determined by the state's proportion of ...

4. Office of Justice Programs - Wikipedia

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   The Office of Justice Programs (OJP) is an agency of the United States Department of Justice that focuses on crime prevention through research and development, assistance to state, local, and tribal criminal justice agencies, including law enforcement, corrections, and juvenile justice through grants and assistance to crime victims.

5. Youth incarceration in the United States - Wikipedia

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   The act required that states holding youth within adult prisons for status offenses remove them within a span of two years (this timeframe was adjusted over time). The act also provided program grants to states, based on their youth populations, and created the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP).

6. Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force - Wikipedia

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   Internet Crimes Against Children (ICAC Task Force) is a task force started by the United States Department of Justice's Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) in 1998. [1] The ICAC program is a national network of 61 coordinated task forces representing more than 5,400 federal, state, and local law enforcement and ...

7. American juvenile justice system - Wikipedia

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   Harris County Juvenile Justice Center. The American juvenile justice system is the primary system used to handle minors who are convicted of criminal offenses. The system is composed of a federal and many separate state, territorial, and local jurisdictions, with states and the federal government sharing sovereign police power under the common authority of the United States Constitution.

8. Communities That Care - Wikipedia

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   Protective Factors and the Social Development Model. The prevention of health and behavior problems in young people requires, at its foundation, the promotion of the factors required for positive development. Research shows that five basic factors promote positive social development: opportunities for developmentally appropriate involvement, skills, recognition for effort, improvement and ...

9. Juvenile delinquency - Wikipedia

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   The OJJDP reports that the juvenile arrest rate for forcible rape increased from the early 1980s through the 1990s and at that time it fell again. [90] Violent crime rates in the U.S. have been on a steady decline since the 1990s. [91]