NCJ Number
135900
Date Published
1991
Length
159 pages
Annotation
The Governor's Juvenile Justice Advisory Committee presents statistical information to the Washington Governor and Legislature on the juvenile justice system and priority problems selected for funding.
Abstract
Priority funding for programs included alternatives to detention, juvenile offender programs, and delinquency prevention programs targeted for a particular community. Alternative projects provide services as advocacy and counseling to minority juveniles in jail; self-esteem and ethnic pride to blacks-at-risk for gang involvement; victim awareness education; work projects; and shelter care of disturbed youths. In order to deal with the increased rate and number of arrests of juveniles for serious and violent crime in Washington State, projects were funded to provide intensive supervision of chronic offenders involving school, law enforcement, and community agencies; a Challenge program for high risk youth; case management; counseling services; and tutoring. Out of the 1.2 million juveniles, black, Hispanic, and Native American youth are more likely to be school dropouts, arrested, and incarcerated than the white and Asian youths. Arrests for drug and alcohol related offenses decreased markedly in 1990; more than 25 percent since 1981.