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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 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 ...
They focused on particularly graphic "crime and horror" comic books of the day, and their potential impact on juvenile delinquency. When publisher William Gaines contended that he sold only comic books of good taste, Kefauver entered into evidence one of Gaines' comics ( Crime SuspenStories #22 [April-May 1954]), which showed a dismembered ...
The federal Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Act of 1974 set up four key requirements [2] for US minors: Firstly, the deinstitutionalization of status offenders, moving them from juvenile halls to community-based or family-based environments. Secondly, segregation (sight and sound separation) between juvenile and adult offenders
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The Runaway and Homeless Youth Act (RHYA, originally the Runaway Youth Act) is a US law originally passed in 1974 as Title III of the Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act. [ 1 ] : 3 The bill sets the federal definition of homeless youth, and forms the basis for the Runaway and Homeless Youth Program, administered by the Family and ...
Juvenile delinquency, also known as juvenile offending, is the act of participating in unlawful behavior as a minor or individual younger than the statutory age of majority. [1] These acts would be considered crimes if the individuals committing them were older. [ 2 ]
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 them within a span of two years (this timeframe was adjusted over time). The act also provided program grants to states, based on their ...