The National Research Council and Institute of Medicine's Panel on Juvenile Crime expressed alarm over an increasingly punitive juvenile justice system and recommended that the federal government should assist states:

a. to develop community-based alternatives
b. to develop residential intervention programs designed to reduce delinquency
c. in focusing their efforts on the protection of the community
d. by limiting monetary incentives for peer-run alternative courts


a

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Indicate whether the statement is true or false

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A. True B. False

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