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[CITE: 42USC5781]

 
                 TITLE 42--THE PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
 
         CHAPTER 72--JUVENILE JUSTICE AND DELINQUENCY PREVENTION
 
SUBCHAPTER V--INCENTIVE GRANTS FOR LOCAL DELINQUENCY PREVENTION PROGRAMS
 
Sec. 5781. Findings

    The Congress finds that--
        (1) approximately 700,000 youth enter the juvenile justice 
    system every year;
        (2) Federal, State, and local governments spend close to 
    $2,000,000,000 a year confining many of those youth;
        (3) it is more effective in both human and fiscal terms to 
    prevent delinquency than to attempt to control or change it after 
    the fact;
        (4) half or more of all States are unable to spend any juvenile 
    justice formula grant funds on delinquency prevention because of 
    other priorities;
        (5) few Federal resources are dedicated to delinquency 
    prevention; and
        (6) Federal incentives are needed to assist States and local 
    communities in mobilizing delinquency prevention policies and 
    programs.

(Pub. L. 93-415, title V, Sec. 502, as added Pub. L. 102-586, Sec. 5(a), 
Nov. 4, 1992, 106 Stat. 5027.)


                               Short Title

    For short title of title V of Pub. L. 93-415, which enacted this 
subchapter, as the ``Incentive Grants for Local Delinquency Prevention 
Programs Act'', see section 501 of Pub. L. 93-415, as added by Pub. L. 
102-586, set out as a note under section 5601 of this title.


                         GAO Studies and Reports

    Section 5(b) of Pub. L. 102-586, as amended by Pub. L. 104-316, 
title I, Sec. 122(n), Oct. 19, 1996, 110 Stat. 3838, provided that: 
``Under such conditions as the Comptroller General of the United States 
determines appropriate, the General Accounting Office may conduct 
studies and report to Congress on the effects of the program established 
by subsection (a) [enacting this subchapter] in encouraging States and 
units of general local government to comply with the requirements of 
part B of title II of the Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention 
Act of 1974 (42 U.S.C. 5631-5633).''
