Juvenile Justice. (Bulletin Reports).

Preventing Delinquency Through Improved Child Protection Services from the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJPD) reviews research on the link between childhood maltreatment and juvenile and adult offending. Research indicates that the prevalence of child abuse or neglect among delinquent offenders is substantially greater than it is among the general population. Moreover, maltreated children are significantly more likely to become involved in delinquent behavior than children who are not maltreated. The information described in this OJJPD bulletin shows that designing and implementing programs to reduce the incidence of child maltreatment are a promising, though often overlooked, strategy for delinquency prevention. This 20-page bulletin (NCJ 187759), written by Richard Wiebush, Raelene Freitag, and Christopher Baird, is available electronically at http://ojjdp.ncjrs.org/pubs/delinqsum.html#187759, or it can be obtained by calling the National Criminal Justice Reference Service at 800 -851-3420.