NCJ Number
160895
Date Published
Unknown
Length
99 pages
Annotation
This manual is designed to guide the police practitioner in the development of sound policy statements that will enhance the department's interaction with the juvenile offender as well as the child victim.
Abstract
The first section presents a rationale for a police department's development of a juvenile policy. It draws from a statement by the International Association of Chiefs of Police to argue that policy statements provide a "sound and reasonable basis for the exercise of police discretion" and "offer guidelines for police conduct by defining limits which demand that which must be and prohibit that which must not be." The second section provides guidelines for the development of police juvenile policies and procedures. This section lists the many police activities that may involve juveniles and suggests how policy and procedure might be developed for each type of police interaction with a juvenile. Some examples provided are procedures for interviewing a student at school and procedures for handling a traffic violation by a juvenile. The third section of the manual provides guidelines and alternatives for the structuring of juvenile operations in the department. Appendixes contain samples of a juvenile unit inventory, a large department juvenile policy, a juvenile division annual report, and juvenile forms. 19 notes and a 12-item bibliography