The act also provided program grants to states, based on their youth populations, and created the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP).

In 1992, President George Bush, the governor's father, named Mr. Regier to lead the National Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention.

She currently sits on the Appropriations Committee and has been chair of the Delinquency Prevention and Diversion Services Task Force since 2006.

Today, there are about 650 youth courts nationwide, compared with 50 in 1991, according to the Justice Department's Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention.

They are administered by the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, a Justice Department agency that also sponsors research into ways of fighting youthful crime.

- Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention.

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In 1978, President Carter appointed him to the National Advisory Committee for Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention.

Office of Juvenile Justice & Delinquency Prevention.

Mr. Regier served in the first federal Bush administration as head of the National Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention.