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OJJDP Bulletin Provides Strategies To Reduce Disproportionate Minority Contact

September 21, 2009

Disproportionate Minority Contact banner: Addressing disproportionate minority contact in juvenile justice








The Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) has published “Reducing Disproportionate Minority Contact: Preparation at the Local Level.”

The bulletin, the first in OJJDP's new DMC series, describes strategies that states and communities can use to reduce disproportionate minority contact with the juvenile justice system. A companion to OJJDP's Disproportionate Minority Contact Technical Assistance Manual, the bulletin includes guidance drawn from the manual and provides useful information on the context in which local preparation to address disproportionate minority contact takes place.

Resources:

“Reducing Disproportionate Minority Contact: Preparation at the Local Level” (NCJ 218861) is available online at http://ojjdp.ncjrs.gov/publications/PubAbstract.asp?pubi=240604.

Print copies may be ordered online.

The DMC Technical Assistance Manual may be accessed at http://www.ncjrs.gov/html/ojjdp/dmc_ta_manual/index.html.



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