Its design is in line with many of the recommendations of the National Advisory Committee for Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention. SHO/DI uses a law enforcement approach that has as its objectives improving the organizational development of crime analysis units, developing criminal information files, and identifying crime trends and patterns of serious and drug-involved juveniles and their pushers. Another objective is to increase the quantity and quality of descriptive and statistical information pertinent to tactical planning and resource allocation and deployment. The program also emphasizes a research, test, and demonstration approach to delinquency prevention and control and cooperation among police, prosecutors, courts, and other juvenile agencies. The program combines Federal and local resources in a much-needed initiative for managing chronic and serious juvenile offenders and is building a data base that can help guide future efforts. 1 figure and 3 footnotes.