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OJJDP News @ a Glance, September/October 2021

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The Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) announces the availability of OJJDP News @ a Glance, September/October 2021. This issue's Message From the Acting Administrator and top story highlight OJJDP's virtual symposium on preventing youth hate crimes and identity-based bullying to be held in October. The Youth Voices column profiles a participant in an OJJDP-sponsored mentoring program designed to reduce delinquent behaviors...

Department of Justice Awards More Than $458 Million To Fight Violent Crime

The Department of Justice's Office of Justice Programs (OJP) announced awards of more than $458 million in fiscal year 2020 to support state, local, and Tribal law enforcement efforts to fight and prevent violent crime nationwide.

OJJDP awarded more than $10 million across 24 jurisdictions to intervene in and suppress youth gang activity. OJJDP also awarded $1 million to the Institute for Intergovernmental Research to...