Juvenile Justice.
The Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention The Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (or OJJDP) is an office of the United States Department of Justice and a component of the Office of Justice Programs. (OJJDP) presents Juvenile Gun Courts: Promoting Accountability and Providing Treatment, which draws on the experiences of policymakers and practitioners involved with juvenile gun courts to describe their development. Juvenile gun courts are targeted interventions that expose youth charged with gun offenses to the ramifications ramifications npl → Auswirkungen pl of such acts. Like its better-known counterpart, the youth drug court, the juvenile gun court is a specialty court that features small case loads, frequent hearings, immediate sanctions, family involvement, and treatment services. This bulletin, part of the Juvenile Accountability Incentive Block Grants Best Practices Series, reviews the OJJDP-supported Jefferson County, Alabama Jefferson County is the most densely populated county in the U.S. state of Alabama, the county seat being Birmingham.[0] As of 2000 U.S. Census, the population of Jefferson County was 662,047. , Juvenile Gun Court. This report is available electronically at http://ojjdp.ncjrs.org/pubs/courtsum.html#187078 or by contacting the National Criminal Justice Reference Service The National Criminal Justice Reference Service (NCJRS) is a program that disseminates publications from the United States Department of Justice's Office of Justice Programs (OJP) agencies, as well as the Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP), Office on Violence Against at 800-851-3420.
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