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 1983, he was appointed by President Ronald Reagan as Head of the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, and he worked on the Meese Report.
More than 2,300 of them were charged with murder, compared with fewer than 1,000 in 1980, according to the Justice Department's Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention.
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.
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).
- Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention.
The compliance of states towards the requirements of the JJDP Act is monitored by the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention.
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Office of Juvenile Justice & Delinquency Prevention.