The Juvenile Services Section is involved in planning, policy development, and funding of juvenile justice and delinquency prevention initiatives provided through federal or state resources. Section staff provide coordination, program support, technical assistance, training, and monitoring of programs designed to address juvenile justice system improvement and delinquency prevention and programs to improve the investigation, prosecution, and administrative and judicial handling of child abuse cases.

Recent Online Information

• Advisory Committee on Juvenile Justice: 2005 Annual Report
• 2007 Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Conference
• Improving Investigation and Prosecution of Child Abuse
• A new Juvenile Justice System Disproportionate Minority Contact page has been added with data by locality and resource information (.htm)
• Virginia's Three-Year Plan 2006-2008 (.htm)
• The 2004 Annual Report of the Virginia Advisory Committee on Juvenile Justice is now available online. (.pdf, 36 pages)
• Finding Words Virginia
• Use of Closed-Circuit Television in Virginia Courtrooms 1994- 2003 (.pdf, 9 pages)
• Child Abuse: Virginia Statutes and Case Law
• Video - "Through a Child's Eyes: Innocence in the Courtroom" (.htm)
• Online Juvenile Justice System Demographics Updated with FY 2002 Data
• Fact Sheet, Reducing Minority Overrepresentation in Virginia's Juvenile Justice System (.pdf, 2 pages)