---
kind: "section"
citation: "34 U.S.C. § 10401"
title: "34"
title_heading: "Crime Control and Law Enforcement"
number: "10401"
heading: "Program authorized"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/34/10401"
units:
  - "Subtitle I — Comprehensive Acts"
  - "Chapter 101 — Justice System Improvement"
  - "Subchapter XVII — Juvenile Accountability Block Grants"
---

# §10401. Program authorized

- (a) **In general—** The [Attorney General](/usc/34/10307.md?p=1) is authorized to provide grants to [States](/usc/34/10410.md?p=3), for use by [States](/usc/34/10410.md?p=3) and units of local government, and in certain cases directly to [specially qualified units](/usc/34/10410.md?p=2).
- (b) **Authorized activities—** Amounts paid to a [State](/usc/34/10410.md?p=3) or a [unit of local government](/usc/34/10410.md?p=1) under this subchapter shall be used by the [State](/usc/34/10410.md?p=3) or [unit of local government](/usc/34/10410.md?p=1) for the purpose of strengthening the [juvenile](/usc/34/10410.md?p=4) justice system, which includes—
  - (1) developing, implementing, and administering [graduated sanctions](/usc/34/11103.md?p=24) for [juvenile](/usc/34/10410.md?p=4) offenders;
  - (2) building, expanding, renovating, or operating temporary or permanent [juvenile](/usc/34/10410.md?p=4) correction, detention, or community corrections facilities;
  - (3) hiring [juvenile](/usc/34/10410.md?p=4) court judges, probation officers, and court-appointed defenders and special advocates, and funding pretrial [services](/usc/34/12291.md?p=a-51) (including mental health [screening](/usc/34/11103.md?p=37) and [assessment](/usc/34/11103.md?p=38)) for [juvenile](/usc/34/10410.md?p=4) offenders, to promote the effective and expeditious administration of the [juvenile](/usc/34/10410.md?p=4) justice system;
  - (4) hiring additional prosecutors, so that more cases involving violent [juvenile](/usc/34/10410.md?p=4) offenders can be prosecuted and case backlogs reduced;
  - (5) providing funding to enable prosecutors to address drug, gang, and [youth](/usc/34/12291.md?p=a-52) violence problems more effectively and for technology, equipment, and training to assist prosecutors in identifying and expediting the [prosecution](/usc/34/12291.md?p=a-28) of violent [juvenile](/usc/34/10410.md?p=4) offenders;
  - (6) establishing and maintaining training programs for [law enforcement](/usc/34/12291.md?p=a-23) and other court personnel with respect to preventing and controlling [juvenile](/usc/34/10410.md?p=4) crime;
  - (7) establishing [juvenile](/usc/34/10410.md?p=4) gun [courts](/usc/34/12291.md?p=a-7) for the [prosecution](/usc/34/12291.md?p=a-28) and adjudication of [juvenile](/usc/34/10410.md?p=4) firearms offenders;
  - (8) establishing drug court programs for [juvenile](/usc/34/10410.md?p=4) offenders that provide continuing judicial supervision over [juvenile](/usc/34/10410.md?p=4) offenders with substance abuse problems and the integrated administration of other sanctions and [services](/usc/34/12291.md?p=a-51) for such offenders;
  - (9) establishing and maintaining a system of [juvenile](/usc/34/10410.md?p=4) records designed to promote public safety;
  - (10) establishing and maintaining interagency information-sharing programs that enable the [juvenile](/usc/34/10410.md?p=4) and criminal justice systems, schools, and social [services](/usc/34/12291.md?p=a-51) agencies to make more informed decisions regarding the early identification, control, supervision, and [treatment](/usc/34/11103.md?p=15) of [juveniles](/usc/34/10410.md?p=4) who repeatedly commit serious delinquent or criminal acts;
  - (11) establishing and maintaining accountability-based programs designed to reduce recidivism among [juveniles](/usc/34/10410.md?p=4) who are referred by [law enforcement](/usc/34/12291.md?p=a-23) personnel or agencies;
  - (12) establishing and maintaining programs to conduct risk and need [assessments](/usc/34/11103.md?p=38) of [juvenile](/usc/34/10410.md?p=4) offenders that facilitate the effective early intervention and the provision of comprehensive [services](/usc/34/12291.md?p=a-51), including mental health [screening](/usc/34/11103.md?p=37) and [treatment](/usc/34/11103.md?p=15) and substance abuse testing and [treatment](/usc/34/11103.md?p=15) to such offenders;
  - (13) establishing and maintaining accountability-based programs that are designed to enhance school safety, which programs may include research-based bullying, cyberbullying, and gang prevention programs;
  - (14) establishing and maintaining restorative justice programs;
  - (15) establishing and maintaining programs to enable [juvenile](/usc/34/10410.md?p=4) [courts](/usc/34/12291.md?p=a-7) and [juvenile](/usc/34/10410.md?p=4) probation officers to be more effective and efficient in holding [juvenile](/usc/34/10410.md?p=4) offenders accountable and reducing recidivism;
  - (16) hiring detention and corrections personnel, and establishing and maintaining training programs for such personnel to improve facility practices and programming; or
  - (17) establishing, improving, and coordinating pre-release and post-release systems and programs to facilitate the successful reentry of [juvenile](/usc/34/10410.md?p=4) offenders from [State](/usc/34/10410.md?p=3) or local custody in the community.
- (c) **Definition—** In this section the term “restorative justice program” means a program that emphasizes the moral accountability of an offender toward the victim and the affected community and may include community reparations boards, restitution (in the form of monetary payment or service to the victim or, where no victim can be identified, service to the affected community), and mediation between victim and offender.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 90–351, title I, § 1801, as added Pub. L. 107–273, div. C, title II, § 12102(a), Nov. 2, 2002, 116 Stat. 1859; amended Pub. L. 109–162, title XI, §§ 1165, 1186, Jan. 5, 2006, 119 Stat. 3121, 3127.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Codification

Section was formerly classified to section 3796ee of Title 42, The Public Health and Welfare, prior to editorial reclassification and renumbering as this section.

### Prior Provisions

A prior section 1801 of title I of Pub. L. 90–351, as added Pub. L. 103–322, title II, § 20201(a)(3), Sept. 13, 1994, 108 Stat. 1819; amended Pub. L. 105–277, div. A, § 101(f) [title VIII, § 405(d)(34), (f)(26)], Oct. 21, 1998, 112 Stat. 2681–337, 2681–426, 2681–433, authorized grants for the purpose of developing alternative methods of punishment for young offenders, prior to the general amendment of part R of title I of Pub. L. 90–351 by Pub. L. 107–273.

Another prior section 1801 of Pub. L. 90–351 was renumbered section 2601 and is classified to section 10541 of this title.

### Amendments

2006—Subsec. (b)(13). Pub. L. 109–162, § 1186, amended par. (13) generally. Prior to amendment, par. (13) read as follows: “establishing and maintaining accountability-based programs that are designed to enhance school safety;”.

Subsec. (b)(17). Pub. L. 109–162, § 1165, added par. (17).

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Effective Date

Pub. L. 107–273, div. C, title II, § 12102(b), Nov. 2, 2002, 116 Stat. 1869, provided that: “The amendments made by subsection (a) [enacting this subchapter] shall take effect on the first day of the first fiscal year that begins after the date of enactment of this Act [Nov. 2, 2002].”