OJJDP Should Strengthen DMC Requirement: Report [JJIE.org]

Samantha Sangenito 9/16/144:00 AM

University of Virginia School of Law

States face no real federal pressure to reduce racial and ethnic disparities in the juvenile justice system, a new report says.

The report by the National Research Council of the National Academy of Sciences, to be formally released in early October, recommends that the federal Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention strengthen a core requirement of the Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act on reducing racial and ethnic disparities in the juvenile justice system.

The JJDPA specifies that states must address disproportionate minority contact (DMC) with the juvenile justice system, but doesn’t say they must reduce it.

[For more of this story, written by Gary Gately, go to http://jjie.org/ojjdp-should-s...ement-report/107605/]

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