Ojjdp 's Tribal Youth Initiatives

By Mckinney, Kay

Book Id: WPLBN0000074712
Format Type: PDF eBook
File Size: 0.3 MB
Reproduction Date: 2005

Title:	Ojjdp 's Tribal Youth Initiatives
Author:	Mckinney, Kay
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Language:	English
Subject:	Government publications, Legislation., Economic & political studies
Collections:	Government Library Collection, Government Printing Office
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Publisher:	Government Printing Office


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Government Reference Publication

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Excerpt: Tribal communities in the United States face formidable challenges. Although the difficulties that afflict American Indian and Alaska Native (AI/AN) communities are not necessarily unique-violence, gangs, and drugs plague many communities nationwide-these problems are especially pervasive among tribal populations. Tribal communities experience disproportionately high levels of violent victimization, intimate partner violence, child abuse and neglect, youth gang involvement, and co-occurrence of alcohol use and offending. Of particular concern to AI/AN tribes1 and the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) is the increasing number of violent crimes being committed by juveniles in many tribal communities. Although the rates of juvenile violent crime have declined throughout the United States for several years, 2 juvenile crime continues to increase in Indian country. According to the Bureau of Justice Statistics’ Special Report Violent Victimization and Race, 1993-98 (Rennison, 2001), American Indians experience violent crime at a rate twice that of the general population.

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