NCJ Number
172288
Journal
Justice Bulletin Volume: 18 Issue: 1 Dated: (January 1998) Pages: 1-6
Date Published
1998
Length
6 pages
Annotation
This article describes the guidelines and proposed administrative structure released in December 1997 by the Office of Justice Programs of the Department of Justice for the new Juvenile Accountability Incentive Block Grants (JAIBG) program.
Abstract
States must actively consider accountability-based juvenile justice sanctions to be eligible for the JAIBG program funds, although active consideration does not require the enactment of any or all of the accountability-based juvenile justice policies that a State is required to consider. Congressional action in the session scheduled to begin in January 1998 may affect the manner in which the funds are allocated. Policies and practices to consider include the transfer of violent juvenile ages 15 or older to adult court by matter of law or prosecutorial discretion, the imposition of graduated sanctions for every delinquent act or probation violation, the creation of expanded record-keeping system for habitual and/or violent juvenile offenders, and the imposition of sanctions against parents of juvenile offenders who are deemed to have not adequately supervised their children. Table displaying State-by-state allocations of funds under the program