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Juvenile Justice
Clearinghouse
Hecht House Room 322-A
School of Criminology and Criminal Justice
Florida State University
Tallahassee, FL 32306-2170
Phone: 1-850-644-7113 or 800-638-8736 (Mon.-Fri, 8:30am-7pm)
Fax: 1-850-644-4668
E-Mail: rjc5860@garnet.acns.fsu.edu
Website:
www.fsu.edu/~crimdo/jjclearinghouse/jjclearinghouse.html
"... to meet a critical shortage of trained professionals
for programs that provide young people with strong, positive role models in their
communities. The Program emphasizes cultural and academic diversity as students are
recruited from a broad range of disciplines including: criminal justice, criminology,
sociology, psychology, education, music therapy, and theatre. All of the students in the
program all share the same common interest"
The website is an excellent source of juvenile material. It
covers every type of juvenile focus, including: minority males and delinquency,
females and delinquency,
criminal justice, juvenile justice, drugs, gangs, mentoring,
poverty, State Departments of Juvenile Justice, school crime, victimization of
youth, media violence, history of juvenile justice, preventing delinquency
and the juvenile court
system. -PT
This site is great to volunteer with, and also to work with. It
has a wonderful buddy program for younger children, so they can stay out of trouble. -OCC
Residents Initiatives
Phone: 1-800-955-2232 (Mon.-Fri, 9am-6pm EST)
Provides info and assistance to public and assisted housing
communities on drug-related crime control in public and assisted housing. Sponsored by HUD.
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Telemarketing Fraud
Phone: 1-800-878-7060
Info on phone, mail and Internet fraud. Help with lawsuits.
We Tip Hotlines
Phone: 1-800-78-CRIME (general) or 1-800-87-FRAUD (felony)
Takes reports on crimes or felonies.
Crime Stoppers
International
620 Public Avenue
Beloit, WI 53511
Phone: 1-608-363-5611
Fax: 1-608-364-0956
Website: www.c-s-i.org/
"Crime Stoppers
began in Albuquerque, New Mexico in September of 1976. Members of the local community, in
partnership with the media and law enforcement, began an effort to provide crime-solving
assistance to law enforcement."
This is a very unique site. It does not contain much information on
the website, although it does contain a lot of information about how to help your
community by helping the police, or crime stoppers, with tips on criminal activity, in order to bring justice. There are many branches of this organization all over the world,
so you can find one near you. -OCC
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Guardian Angels
717 Fifth Ave.
Suite 401
New York, NY 10022
Phone: 1-212-545-7676
Fax: 1-212-545-7666
Email: ecoast@guardianangels.org
Website: www.guardianangels.org/
"... a voluntary, weapon-free patrol of thirteen to take the subways,
the streets and the neighborhood back from crime. The accolades that followed and even the
detractors decrying his initiative and success proved the value of the
comforting
symbolism of the red beret."
This is a very successful and very well-known organization. There
are many different sections of this site. It does not give much information online, but it
does have many programs that one can join, and have your children join. From
the age of 7 you can be a part of this group, patrolling the city, learning responsibility, making
friends, and more. The site also has a program for adults who are not official police but
can help patrol areas. -OCC
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can help our youth grow up in a crime free environment, reducing the number
of people who end up in prison
Teens, Crime and the Community
(TCC)
1010 Wayne Ave.
Suite 870
Silver Spring, MD 20910
Phone: 1-301-589-1130
Fax: 1-301-589-1131
Email: tcc@ncpc.org
Website: www.nationaltcc.org/
"Youth and adults across the country have embraced both TCC's
principles and tools because they know it works. Whether applied in rural, urban, or
suburban areas, TCC is a low-cost, flexible, proven program for empowering youth to
protect themselves and help them to take active roles in crime prevention in their
communities."
This is an organization with branches helping all across the United
States. You can easily find one near you through its website. This is a helpful
organization that helps teens get off the streets and helps stop crime instead of
starting crime. -OCC
National Crime Prevention
Council (NCPC)
1000 Connecticut Ave. NW
13th Floor
Washington, DC 20036
Phone: 1-202-261-4161
Fax: 1-202-296-1356
Email: webmaster@ncpc.org
Website: www.ncpc.org/
"NCPC's Mission is to enable people to create safer and more
caring communities by addressing the causes of crime and violence and reducing the
opportunities for crime to occur. A national educational nonprofit, the nation's focal
point for crime prevention information, the McGruff people: NCPC is all of these things
and more."
The NCPC is a very well-known organization. Using "McGruff the
Crime Dog", it has reached many young people, and helped them to make a positive
difference within their very own communities. This site has a lot of information about how
anyone can make a difference. -OCC
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