MENU TITLE: NCJRS Catalog Grants And Funding.
Series: NIJ Catalog Number 35
Published: July/August 1997
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This section of the Catalog highlights grants and
funding awarded recently by the Office of Justice
Programs agencies, as well as recently completed
final technical reports resulting from these
grants, that are maintained in the NCJRS Document
Data Base.

Final Technical Reports

Copies of these reports--in manuscript form as
received from the authors--are available through
interlibrary loan and, for a photocopying fee,
through NCJRS.

"How Portland Does It: Community Prosecution." NCJ
165182. National Institute of Justice, 1996. Grant
number 94-IJ-CX-0004.

Describes the genesis, activities, and nature of a
community prosecution experiment in the Multnomah
County (Portland), Oregon, District Attorney's
office. Community prosecution is an organizational
response to the grassroots public safety demands of
neighborhoods. Portland's experiment focuses
predominantly on quality-of-life and low-level
disorder crimes. Other prosecutors' offices are
devising surprisingly similar organizational
responses to deal with serious violent crime.

"Evaluation of the Reasoning and Rehabilitation
Cognitive Skills Development Program as Implemented
in Juvenile ISP in Colorado." NCJ 165183. National
Institute of Justice, 1996. Grant number 93-IJ-CX-
K017.

Presents findings from the Division of Criminal
Justice's evaluation of the Reasoning and 
Rehabilitation (R&R) cognitive skills development
program, as it is delivered to juveniles placed on
juvenile intensive supervision probation (JISP) in
Colorado. The R&R program is mandatory for all JISP
clients unless they are deemed by the probation
officer to be too disruptive or have characteristics 
that would prohibit them from benefiting from
the program. The report indicated that JISP could
do more to meet the standards of R&R program
developers and to prepare for program delivery.



"Prosecutor and Criminal Court Use of Juvenile
Court Records: A National Study." NCJ 165184.
National Institute of Justice, 1996. Grant number
93-IJ-CX-0020. 

Examines how prosecutors and judges use 
juvenile records of defendants charged with
violent crimes in court. One indicator of a violent
repeat criminal is the offender's juvenile record,
and the use of this identifier can lead to both
priority prosecution and increased court
sanctioning. This study was conducted in two phases
by the Institute for Law Justice (ILJ). In phase I,
ILJ reviewed the legal and programmatic status of
adult courts' juvenile record use in the 50 States.
In phase II, ILJ examined the use of juvenile
records by court decisionmakers in Wichita, Kansas,
and Montgomery County, Maryland.