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Law enforcement agencies are critical partners in community-based prevention strategies and can help reduce youth involvement in drug-related criminal activity. Some communities have begun to employ effective collaboration among police, prosecutors, judges, probation officers, corrections officials, and their counterparts in the prevention field. For example, PACT360 (Police and Communities Together) is a community education program funded by DOJ and implemented in collaboration with the Partnership at Drugfree.org. In FY 2010, DOJ awarded two new PACT360 grants for a total of $1.2 million from the Edward Byrne Memorial Justice Assistance Grant Program. An enforcement-led effort, PACT360 provides education to parents, youth, and community leaders about the risks and consequences of youth drug use. Many government-private partnerships have been formed through PACT360. To date, lead law enforcement agencies have been recruited in more than 30 states. (Action Item 1.4B)
In 2010, ONDCP awarded $800,000 to 12 HIDTAs to support participation in drug awareness and education activities. Currently, 20 of the 28 HIDTAs participate in prevention initiatives. Using evidence-based prevention practices, HIDTA members partner with community-based coalitions and organizations to better tailor prevention messages to youth, share time and personnel resources with local law enforcement agencies, and use juvenile justice programs to prevent and reduce gang and other criminal activity. (Action Item 1.4A)
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Dowry.
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Dowry is the customary practice of giving material goods like gold, cash or immovable property during marriages. These goods are given to the bridegroom by the bride, as a form of payment or as a condition for marriage.
This dowry system was outlawed in 1961 by Indian laws, but this practice was still continued by most of the people even today. This may have been in practice for so many years but the financial burden that the parents of the bride had to suffer was also a disadvantage. And due to the immense amount of demands for the dowry, it also led to multiple cases of domestic violence. This practice is more prominent in the Northern states of India, especially among the Hindus.
