CJJ | Announcement: CJJ ISSUES RECOMMENDATIONS TO DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE ON RACIAL/ETHNIC DISPARITIES and DMC
On April 6, 2009, CJJ delivered a letter of recommendations to U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder, Acting Assistant Attorney General for the Office of Justice Programs Laurie Robinson, and Acting Administrator of the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) Jeffrey Slowikowski, calling for increased resources and leadership to be devoted to efforts to eliminate racial/ethnic disparities and disproportionate minority contact (DMC) in juvenile justice.
[1] Letter of RecommendationsCJJ recommendations support many of the priorities of the new Administration and include an invitation for the Justice Department, Office of Justice Programs and OJJDP to take stock of field-generated ideas and perspectives.
Under the leadership of the CJJ Ethnic and Cultural Diversity Committee, the CJJ National DMC Coordinator Representative and the CJJ Executive Board, the recommendations are based on a CJJ field survey of state efforts with DMC reduction, analysis of the survey results, and months of discussion among CJJ members, including DMC Coordinators. Please feel free to circulate and use the letter for your own valuable efforts.
For more information on the work of the CJJ Ethnic and Cultural Diversity Committee, please feel free to contact committee chair Gina E. Wood at [2] gwood@jointcenter.org, or Mark Ferrante ([3] ferrante@juvjustice.org) and Nancy Gannon Hornberger ([4] nancy@juvjustice.org).
[1]: http://juvjustice.org/media/resources//resource_237.pdf
[2]: mailto:gwood@jointcenter.org
[3]: mailto:ferrante@juvjustice.org
[4]: mailto:nancy@juvjustice.org