Juvenile Serious Habitual Offender/Drug Involved Program - A Means to Implement Recommendations of the National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges

• NCJ Number: 100092
• Journal: Juvenile and Family Court Journal Volume: 36 Issue: 2 Dated: (Summer 1985) Pages: 27-42
• Author(s): R O Heck; W Pindur; D K Wells
• Date Published: 1985
• Length: 11 pages
• Sale Source: National Institute of Justice/; NCJRS Photocopy Services
• Publication Type: Program Description (Model)
• Language: English
• Country: United States of America
• Note: *This document is currently unavailable from NCJRS.

Annotation

This article highlights ways that the Serious Habitual Offender/Drug Involved Program (SHODI) can be used to implement recommendations for dealing with serious juvenile offenders endorsed by the National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges (NCJFCJ) in July 1984.

Abstract

In 1983, the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention responded to the serious juvenile offender problem with the SHODI demonstration project involving police departments. NCJFCJ also focused on this area, adopting recommendations relating to disposition policies, causes and prevention, dispositional guidelines, transfer to adult criminal court, confidentiality, treatment considerations, specific programs, status of the court, and resources. This article describes how objectives and activities in SHODI complement selected recommendations in each of these nine areas. For example, the SHODI program tries to enhance cooperation and coordination among all juvenile-related agencies and has worked to eliminate or reduce pretrial delays, case dismissals, and plea bargaining for serious juvenile offenders. Other areas of agreement include providing juvenile records to adult courts at sentencing, opening juvenile records to those who need to know, and providing substance abuse programs to serious juvenile offenders. 4 footnotes and a list of recommendations endorsed by the NCJFCJ.