Director McCaffrey cited several studies indicating that drug use and youth violence are frequently associated with one another. Focus group participants represented national, State, and local experts in the areas of aging, elder victimization, and criminal justice. The recommendations provided in this report form the core elements of an overall strategy for the Office of Justice Programs to undertake in improving its support for State, local, and tribal efforts in this area. An Evaluation of a Prison Telemedicine Network Telemedicine, the remote delivery of health care through telecommunications, is promising for prison use. Demonstrations of telemedicine in four Federal prisons indicate that, besides cost savings, remote telemedical consultations can provide access to new specialists and improve the quality of care delivered to prison populations.
Some reports also analyze use by offense, gender, region, and concurrent use of other drugs.
Results this year showed that a growing number of juvenile arrestees use marijuana and that methamphetamine use is largely concentrated in the Midwest and West regions. Findings indicate that arrestees in England are more prone to use opiates, methadone, and amphetamines and that cocaine use is more popular among United States arrestees. The Report's 1996 estimates of juvenile court cases are derived from data from nearly 1,800 juvenile courts that have jurisdiction over 67 percent of the U.S. juvenile population. The above Fact Sheets are available online and in hard copy from the Juvenile Justice Clearinghouse. This is the mission of the Office for Victims of Crime.