Manual Provides Assistance on Disproportionate Minority Contact
July 29, 2009
The Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention has released a new edition of its Disproportionate Minority Contact Technical Assistance Manual.
This fourth edition presents methods for calculating and analyzing disproportionate minority contact (DMC) and describes how jurisdictions may use data to facilitate informed decision making, multidisciplinary and collaborative approaches and partnerships, promising intervention strategies, performance measurement and evaluation.
The updated edition features new chapters on DMC data and intervention strategies for serving Hispanic youth in the juvenile justice system and the role of State DMC coordinators.
Resources:
The latest edition of the Disproportionate Minority Contact Technical Assistance Manual is available at www.ncjrs.gov/html/ojjdp/dmc_ta_manual/index.html.
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