Juvenile Serious Habitual Offender/Drug Involved Program: A Means To Implement the Recommendations of the National Advisory Committee for Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (From Serious Habitual Offender/Drug Involved Program (SHO/DI), Volume 1: Informational Commentaries, Phase I, 1986, P

• NCJ Number: 108325
• Author(s): R O Heck; W Pindur; D K Wells
• Date Published: 1986
• Length: 11 pages
• Corporate Author: US Dept of Justice
• Sale Source: National Institute of Justice/; NCJRS Photocopy Services
• Publication Type: Program Description (Model)
• Language: English
• Country: United States of America
• Note: For microfiche, see NCJ-108314.

Annotation

The serious habitual offender/drug involved (SHO/DI) program is being implemented in five jurisdictions in an effort to improve the effectiveness of the juvenile justice system in handling the serious, violent, and chronic juvenile delinquent.

Abstract

Its design is in line with many of the recommendations of the National Advisory Committee for Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention. SHO/DI uses a law enforcement approach that has as its objectives improving the organizational development of crime analysis units, developing criminal information files, and identifying crime trends and patterns of serious and drug-involved juveniles and their pushers. Another objective is to increase the quantity and quality of descriptive and statistical information pertinent to tactical planning and resource allocation and deployment. The program also emphasizes a research, test, and demonstration approach to delinquency prevention and control and cooperation among police, prosecutors, courts, and other juvenile agencies. The program combines Federal and local resources in a much-needed initiative for managing chronic and serious juvenile offenders and is building a data base that can help guide future efforts. 1 figure and 3 footnotes.