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Berkowitz, J.; Nielsen, R. – 1973
The Santa Clara County Pre-Delinquent Diversion Program is an attempt to develop and coordinate community based alternatives to the juvenile justice system. The concept of diversion is implemented at the police level by 12 law enforcement jurisdictions, each of which has shaped a distinctive approach to the problem in consonance with the nature of…
Descriptors: Community Cooperation, Community Programs, Correctional Rehabilitation, Delinquency Prevention
PDF pending restorationLadd, Laura; Lynch, Michael – 1979
The juvenile diversion program, Special Emphasis Memphis-Metro Youth Diversion Project, is described. The following areas of concern are addressed: (1) the juvenile justice system in Memphis prior to diversion; (2) project philosophy and community support-building efforts; and (3) implementation efforts therough the juvenile court, community…
Descriptors: Community Programs, Delinquency, Delinquency Prevention, Delinquent Rehabilitation
Download full textYouth Development and Delinquency Prevention Administration (DHEW), Washington, DC. – 1973
The booklet describes how three American communities (Orange County, California; San Antonio, Texas; and St. Joseph County, Indiana) are using grant assistance from the Youth Development and Delinquency Prevention Administration to implement Youth Services Systems, which are designed to divert youth from encounters with the juvenile justice system…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Community Cooperation, Community Programs, Delinquency
Center for Action Research, Inc., Boulder, CO. – 1976
This publication describes a program of policy research sponsored by the Office of Youth Development, U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare. The purpose is to determine how the federal government can best support state and local community efforts in administering coordinated programs for youth development and delinquency prevention. A…
Descriptors: Community Programs, Delinquency Prevention, Delivery Systems, Federal State Relationship
Reid, Thomas A.; Garner, Peter W. – 1975
Both courts and police departments have had difficulty in coping with increased juvenile crime. This paper describes a program of collaboration between law enforcement and social services which illustrates a developing trend in the management of youthful offenders. In a suburban Conneticut community (Hamden), the police department regularly…
Descriptors: Community Programs, Delinquency, Delinquency Prevention, Delinquent Rehabilitation
Bisard, Michael W. – 1974
This final report contains an overall assessment of progress toward goals, a listing of positive and negative results, estimates of total project costs, man-years, and future, and an evaluation of the six project components for a comprehensive youth determined program in South Carolina, the Youth Service Agency. This program is said to have been…
Descriptors: Advisory Committees, Community Programs, Community Relations, Community Services
Gold, Martin; Mattick, Hans W. – 1974
The Chicago Youth Development Project was an action-research program jointly undertaken by the Chicago Boys Club and the University of Michigan Institute for Social Research to test whether a program of aggressive street work and community organization in the core of a city could reduce delinquency among youth living there. The report presents a…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Community Programs, Comparative Analysis, Delinquency
