Before the first VFA, the federal student loan program existed for nearly 40 years without any definitive data on what prevents delinquency and default.

An effective way of preventing juvenile delinquency and keeping at-risk children away from crime is to tackle the problem before it happens.

Below are a few agencies that work on preventing juvenile delinquency, though this list is not all encompassing by any means.

In an effort to prevent delinquency, the Chicago Area Project was born, and designed to create social fabric in "delinquency areas."

The four types of control can help prevent juvenile delinquency are:

(Around the same time, this same atomic-age Comstock helped put a muzzle on the comic-book industry in the name of preventing juvenile delinquency.)

The best approach to preventing delinquency begins with protecting the in-utero environment and includes promoting good nutrition in early childhood.

These courts were established in 1949 in the belief that the adjustment of a family's situation is sometimes required to protect children and prevent juvenile delinquency.

Utahns have longed struggled with the question of how to most effectively respond to and prevent juvenile delinquency.

For example, they show how French governments in the 1980s challenged social workers to work with others to prevent crime, delinquency and exclusion.