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  • Girl Delinquency Resources

    The recently launched Girls’ Delinquency Web page draws on OJJDP’s Girls Study Group and related resources to examine the nature and scope of girls’ delinquency and effective...
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  • Sexual Exploitation of Children

    A new OJJDP Web page features OJJDP Programs That Address Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children. This topical page describes relevant training and technical assistance programs, collaborative demonstration...
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  • Crime Victim Services

    The OVC Online Directory of Crime Victim Services features new enhancements. Visit the Directory to search nearly 11,000 programs and take advantage of downloadable search...
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  • Law Enforcement Responses to the Mentally Ill

    Improving Responses to People with Mental Illnesses: Strategies for Effective Law Enforcement Training” describes the challenges experienced by several jurisdictions that developed training for officers...
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  • Community Policing Dispatch, November 2008

    The November “Community Policing Dispatch” (CPD) issue features articles on how combat deployments can affect police officers returning to work, how 311 helped Minneapolis manage...
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  • Haunted Libraries

    “Last year about this time (just in time for Halloween), George Eberhart of the American Library Association posted on this blog a list of libraries that...
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  • German Libraries Hold Thousands of Looted Volumes Stolen by Nazis

    Hundreds of thousands of books stolen by the Nazis are still in German libraries. A few librarians are acting like detectives, searching for the books...
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  • Digital Archimedes Palimpsest Released

    “Ten years ago today, a private American collector purchased the Archimedes Palimpsest. Since that time he has guided and funded the project to conserve, image,...
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  • Modern Cabinet of Curiosities Stuns the Eye and Mind

    Jay Walker, 52-year-old founder of the Internet think-tank Walker Digital (known for Priceline.com), has built a library celebrating human imagination. Books and artifacts from a...
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  • Park Your Car In A Good Book

    Downtown Kansas City Library Garage, Kansas City, Missouri New 152,864 SF, 485-car garage adjacent to the recently renovated downtown Kansas City library. An exterior treatment creates...
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