NCJ Number
116571
Date Published
1982
Length
13 pages
Annotation
To promulgate its policy and goals, the Formula Grants and Technical Assistance Division of the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) (U.S. Department of Justice) has prepared three monographs that describe its overall perspectives and goals, present suggestions on how these goals can be implemented, and explain appropriate uses of the division's technical assistance.
Abstract
The three monographs follow the goal structure of the division in addressing delinquency prevention, the development of community alternatives to the traditional justice system, and improvement of the juvenile justice system. The three monographs offer the practitioner a summary of theory and research developed in the three goal areas over the past decade, with suggestions on ways of translating the concepts into actual practice. The monographs also promulgate the division's formal policy and goals, so that State and local agencies seeking formula grants and technical assistance can readily determine whether the programs or requests they submit to the OJJDP can be funded and/or supplemented within the constraints of the division's policies and goals. The monographs provide criteria for OJJDP's own administrators so that grants and technical assistance will be awarded against a common set of guidelines, and the grants will be awarded on a fair basis. 57-item bibliography.