Although the Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act of 1974 does not specify the primary purpose of the Special Emphasis Program, it is generally categorized as serving a dual function of research/demonstration and service delivery. A General Accounting Office (GAO) review was held to determine the efficiency and effectiveness of the management of the program. The results indicated that the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention did not recognize the need to operate the two programs in a different manner. GAO found that the office's policies and procedures primarily addressed service delivery and virtually ignored research/demonstration. In response to these findings, the Department of Justice, although disagreeing on some points, stated that corrective action would be taken. (JAC)
Authors
- Authorizing Institution
- General Accounting Office, Washington, DC.
- Peer Reviewed
- F
- Publication Type
- Reports - Evaluative
- Published in
- United States of America
Table of Contents
- Prevention to establish delivery programs should be 4
- The report makes recommendations 4
- Government Operations and the 4
- A level of monitoring had been established consistent with the funds 36
- The evaluation design was not an integral part of the program design because the 36
- I and Part II 37
- Therefore the finding that 38
