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Summer 2005 |
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 Summer In-Sites online
It’s time for your community to check out In-Sites, the online magazine from the
Community Capacity Development Office
that gives you quick and easy access to
important information from the field. The In-Sites quarterly e-pub comprises six sections:
law enforcement, community policing, prevention
(including intervention and treatment),
neighborhood restoration, reentry, and
American Indian/Alaska Native affairs. Each
section highlights effective strategies, important
events, strong community leaders, and
grassroots efforts to improve neighborhoods
from Weed and Seed sites across the Nation.
This summer’s issue includes stories about a
basketball and reading camp for spring
break, a Weed and Seed site that focuses only
on reentry, and finding new approaches to
prosecuting drug cases successfully. Visit In-Sites at http://www.ncjrs.org/ccdo/in-sites/welcome.html and check at the end of July
for the new issue.
 Alternative services can reduce
reliance on secure facilities for
juvenile offenders
This OJJDP bulletin examines how juvenile
courts, using objective assessment tools to
determine a youth’s risk of reoffending, can
reduce their reliance on secure detention and
confinement of juvenile offenders. Among
the issues addressed in this bulletin are the
need for alternatives to secure detention and
confinement, guidelines for initiating systematic
changes and developing objective
classification and risk assessment tools, alternatives
to secure detention and confinement,
and common characteristics of effective
programs.
Alternatives to Secure Detention and
Confinement of Juvenile Offenders,
41 pages
 Violent juvenile offenders benefit from small, secure local facilities
For a limited population of serious, violent, or
chronic juvenile offenders who pose a threat
to the community or who cannot function in
a less secure setting, smaller community-based
or regional facilities can provide secure
confinement economically and with the
best possible outcomes for these youth. This
OJJDP bulletin presents basic information
relevant to planning such facilities, describes
three sample programs, and provides a list of
related resources.
Planning Community-Based Facilities for
Juvenile Offenders as Part of a System of
Graduated Sanctions, 39 pages
 Survey findings detail trends in
juvenile gangs for 1999–2001
Since 1996, OJJDP’s National Youth Gang
Center has conducted an annual survey of
law enforcement agencies to assess the
youth gang problem in jurisdictions throughout
the United States. The National Youth
Gang Survey is based on a nationally representative
sample of law enforcement agencies
that serve larger and smaller cities and
suburban and rural counties. This summary
presents detailed findings from the 1999,
2000, and 2001 surveys, and, where available,
preliminary findings from the 2002 survey.
National Youth Gang Survey 1999–2001,
80 pages; forthcoming
http://www.ncjrs.org/pdffiles1/ojjdp/209392.pdf
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