Acknowledgments

Bob Scales is a Deputy Prosecuting Attorney with the King County Prosecutor’s Office. He is currently assigned to the Juvenile Division as the prosecutor funded under OJJDP’s JAIBG program, and he has been designated as a Special Assistant U.S. Attorney to handle selected firearm cases in Federal Court. He is also working with the American Prosecutors Research Institute, an OJJDP grantee, to present information about this project to prosecutors from other jurisdictions. Julie Baker is Senior Grants and Contracts Specialist in the Research & Grants Section of the SPD Community & Information Services Bureau. She was coauthor of Seattle’s YHVI grant proposal and project manager of the Seattle YHVI grant. Tom Cullen, a senior writer/editor at OJJDP’s Juvenile Justice Clearinghouse, assisted the authors in editing and revising this Bulletin for publication. This Bulletin was prepared with materials developed under grant number 95–CN–WX–0013 from the Office of Community Oriented Policing Services, U.S. Department of Justice.

Seattle’s Effective Strategy for Prosecuting Juvenile Firearm Offenders	Juvenile Justice Bulletin • March 2000