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findings Sec. 101. (a) The Congress hereby finds that— (1) juveniles account for almost half the arrests for serious crimes in the United States today; (2) untie retailed, overcrowded juvenile courts, probation services, and correctional facilities are not able to provide individualized justice or effective help: (3) present juvenile courts, foster and protective care programs, and shelter facilities are inadequate to meet the needs of the countless, abandoned, and dependent children, who, because of (his failure to provide effective services, may become delinquents; (4) existing programs have not adequately responded to the particular problems of the increasing numbers of young people who are addicted to or who abuse drugs, particularly nonopiate or polydrug abusers; 88 Stat. 1110 (5) juvenile delinquency can be prevented through programs designed to keep students in elementary and secondary schools through the prevention of unwarranted and arbitrary suspensions and expulsions; (6) States and local communities which experience directly the devastating failures of the juvenile justice system do not presently have sufficient technical expertise or adequate resources to deal comprehensively with the problems of juvenile delinquency; and (7) existing Federal programs have not provided the direction, coordination, resources, and leadership required to meet the crisis of delinquency. (b) Congress finds further that the high incidence of delinquency in the United States today results in enormous annual cost and immeasurable loss of human life, personal security, and wasted human resources and that juvenile delinquency constitutes a growing threat to the national welfare requiring immediate and comprehensive action by the Federal Government to reduce and prevent delinquency.