NCJ Number
118387
Date Published
1984
Length
922 pages
Annotation
This report contains testimony presented at the 1984 House Subcommittee on Human Resources oversight hearing on the Justice Department's Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP).
Abstract
The OJJDP Administrator discusses some of the issues his office emphasizes, including juveniles as victims, school safety, child pornography, child abuse, the link between sexual abuse and exploitation of children and their subsequent juvenile delinquency and criminal violence patterns, characteristics of offenders who victimize children, and drug and alcohol abuse in schools. Other prepared statements focus on crime statistics and grants and contracts awarded by the OJJDP. Supplemental testimony contained in an appendix deals with child protection, child discipline, discretionary justice and juvenile research, antisocial conduct, treatment approaches for juveniles, individual rights and the Federal role in behavior modification, civil rights, school psychology, serious juvenile crime, the efficacy of open juvenile delinquency hearings, violence in schools, and youth in confinement. References, tables, and illustrations.