NCJ Number
137316
Date Published
1983
Length
77 pages
Annotation
Intended to provide a reference to the various juvenile justice standards and how to use them, this handbook describes the standards developed by the American Bar Association and the Institute of Judicial Administration as well as by other organizations and explains who should use them and how they should be used.
Abstract
Other sections provide a chronology of major events in the development and reform of the juvenile justice system, describe the services available from the American Bar Association's Juvenile Justice Standards Implementation Project; give examples of the use of the standards in revising juvenile codes, conducting comparative analyses, processing juvenile cases, and other areas; and provides a detailed index that provides references to the 20 volumes of standards approved by the American Bar Association