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  2. Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act - Wikipedia

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    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.

  3. Youth incarceration in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Juvenile detention totals from the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention. [4] Juvenile convicts working in the fields in a chain gang, photo taken circa 1903. 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 ...

  4. Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention

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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.

  5. Juvenile delinquency in the United States - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  6. Runaway and Homeless Youth Act - Wikipedia

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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 ...

  7. Proposal calls for closures of Green Ridge, Mountain View ...

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    Nov. 19—CUMBERLAND — News that a state proposal would close the Green Ridge Youth Center in Flintstone is surprising and disappointing, Allegany County Board of Commissioners President Jake ...

  8. How a broken juvenile justice system is failing in NYC - AOL

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    Another young thug, just 12 years old, has already been busted six times, but also roams the streets at will after being cycled through a state juvenile justice system that is handcuffed by lax ...

  9. Juvenile delinquency - Wikipedia

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    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 ]