Every single individual person that is living in the United States today and probably for years to come das been affected by juvenile crime. It not only affects parents, siblings, teachers, neighbors, and all families involved. This also affects the victims of crime, the bystander, and the perpetrators. Although the delinquency rates are experiencing a decrease, this is not true in many cities the rate is still remaining high. In these high crime cities numerous programs have attempted to try and lower this juvenile rate, but while there are a few that can be extremely successful and other programs have no impact and just minimal impact. Meanwhile it’s very critical to dictate the effectiveness of all the different programs in order to find
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It is defined as a United States federal law providing funds to states that follow a series of federal protections, known as the “core protection,” on the care and treatment of youth in the justice system. The JJDPA provides direct funding for states that follow the law for research, training and technical assistance, and evaluation. With the original enactment of the JJDPA in 1974, the recurrent prescribed changes by Congress are causing or likely to cause an argument or be controversial. As certain opponents are seeking to weaken its protection for youth, reduce prevention resources, and influence the transfer of youth to the adult criminal justice …show more content…
Believe it or not there is a vast amount of different types of programs currently exist. Additional effective programs are the ones that intervene before the start of the delinquent behavior and to prevent that behavior. With getting involved in the children’s lives early, than it’s possible that later crime can be effectively decreases prevention programs. This is going to positively impact all of the general public due to the fact this will help in stopping the crime in the first place. Some prevention programs have a better success rate than others. The only two programs that I researched to be the most effective when juveniles are when they are at a young age is going to be intervention and comprehensiveness which in easier terms is the visitation program and the Head Start program. These two important programs have had incredible results with them being able to targeting specific risk factors that seem to lead to delinquent
It is defined as a United States federal law providing funds to states that follow a series of federal protections, known as the “core protection,” on the care and treatment of youth in the justice system. The JJDPA provides direct funding for states that follow the law for research, training and technical assistance, and evaluation. With the original enactment of the JJDPA in 1974, the recurrent prescribed changes by Congress are causing or likely to cause an argument or be controversial. As certain opponents are seeking to weaken its protection for youth, reduce prevention resources, and influence the transfer of youth to the adult criminal justice …show more content…
Believe it or not there is a vast amount of different types of programs currently exist. Additional effective programs are the ones that intervene before the start of the delinquent behavior and to prevent that behavior. With getting involved in the children’s lives early, than it’s possible that later crime can be effectively decreases prevention programs. This is going to positively impact all of the general public due to the fact this will help in stopping the crime in the first place. Some prevention programs have a better success rate than others. The only two programs that I researched to be the most effective when juveniles are when they are at a young age is going to be intervention and comprehensiveness which in easier terms is the visitation program and the Head Start program. These two important programs have had incredible results with them being able to targeting specific risk factors that seem to lead to delinquent