Sentence examples for delinquency prevention from inspiring English sources

Some – like the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency prevention – say it's as high as 80%.

They are seeking financing for job training, juvenile delinquency prevention, mentoring, abstinence and sexuality education, housing and economic development.

When Congress reauthorizes the Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act of 1974, it should press the states to end this barbaric practice.

Under the Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act of 1974, the states agreed to humanize their often Dickensian juvenile justice systems in exchange for increased federal aid.

"I have, in the last three years, obtained more than $10 million for libraries, museums, juvenile delinquency prevention and other local programs," Mr. Owens said.

Congress must now reshape the Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act so that it provides the states with the money and the expertise they need to develop more enlightened juvenile justice policies.

We suggest that suicide and death prevention among CAP patients may not be a psychiatric issue per se but a future function of society's juvenile social-welfare investments and juvenile-delinquency prevention programs.

Mr. Regier served in the first federal Bush administration as head of the National Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention.

Today, there are about 650 youth courts nationwide, compared with 50 in 1991, according to the Justice Department's Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention.

JOHN J. WILSON Washington, April 30 , 2001The writer is acting administrator, Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, Justice Dept.

Ms. Hanes is now serving in the Justice Department's Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention as counselor to the administrator.