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Program Focus: The Women's Prison Association: Supporting Women Offenders And Their Families, Us Department Of Justice
Program Focus: The Women's Prison Association: Supporting Women Offenders And Their Families, Us Department Of Justice
National Institute of Justice Office of Justice Programs
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Kids, Cops, & Communities, Us Department Of Justice, Carnegie Corporation Of New York
Kids, Cops, & Communities, Us Department Of Justice, Carnegie Corporation Of New York
National Institute of Justice Office of Justice Programs
This report is designed to help law enforcement administrators and officers understand and institute a strategy to help prevent violence - community-oriented policing services carried out in collaboration with youth-serving organizations. Popular police prevention approaches such as D.A.R.E. (Drug Abuse Resistance Education), G.R.E.A.T. (Gang Resistance Education and Training), and the McGruff "Take a Bite out of Crime" campaigns have helped prepare police officers to work hand in hand in a variety of ways with local affiliates of national youth-serving organizations. In a growing number of cities, police are working with youth groups and finding that violence involving youth is rapidly …