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Addressing the Problem of Juvenile Bullying
Fact Sheet, June 2001. Discusses juvenile bullying, a form of violence among children that has come under intense scrutiny amid reports that it may have been a contributing factor in recent school shootings and that it may be related to other forms of juvenile violence. 2 pages. FS 200127.
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Addressing Youth Victimization
Bulletin: Action Plan Series, October 2001. Explains that although violent crime has decreased significantly since the publication of Combating Violence and Delinquency: The National Juvenile Justice Action Plan in 1996, too many children continue to be victims of violent crime, child abuse and neglect, and exposure to violence. 20 pages. NCJ 186667.
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AMBER Alert: Best Practices Guide for Public Information Officers
AMBER Alert Guide, July 2006. Describes the public information officer’s (PIO’s) job responsibilities and provides tips to maximize the PIO’s effectiveness before, during, and after an AMBER Alert activation. 16 pages. NCJ 212703.
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Amber Alert: Best Practices Guide for Broadcasters and Other Media Outlets
AMBER Alert Guide, April 2005. Provides state, regional, and local authorities with the information necessary for developing and improving AMBER Alert initiatives and procedures. 10 pages. NCJ 208481.
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America's Children in Brief: Key National Indicators of Well-Being, 2006
Report, July 2006. Presents statistics about children’s economic security, health, behavior, social environment, and education. 18 pages. NCJ 214787.
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America's Children: Key National Indicators of Well-Being, 2005
Report, July 2005. Presents statistics about children’s economic security, health, behavior, social environment, and education and provides features on children with asthma, children with specified blood lead levels, and parental reports of children’s emotional and behavioral difficulties. NCJ 210533.
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Balanced and Restorative Justice Videoconference
Videotape: OJJDP Teleconference Videotape Series, June 2001. Highlights some of the key principles involved in the balanced and restorative justice model. This product is sold out. NCJ 188420.
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Balanced and Restorative Justice
Summary, October 1994. Discusses community supervision of juvenile offenders based on the balanced approach mission and the restorative justice philosophy. 21 pages. NCJ 149727.
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Balanced and Restorative Justice Project (BARJ)
Fact Sheet, July 1996. Explains the balanced and restorative justice model, which underscores the importance of the victim (individual or community) in the justice process and requires the offender to actively pursue restoration of the victim by paying restitution or performing community service, or both. 2 pages. FS 9642.
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Battered Child Syndrome: Investigating Physical Abuse and Homicide
Portable Guide: Portable Guides to Investigating Child Abuse Series, December 2002; revised from August 1996. Presents practical information on the circumstances that point to the willful rather than the accidental injury or death of an infant or child, the evidence required to prove it, and the techniques for obtaining such evidence. 20 pages. NCJ 161406.
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Best Practices To Address Community Gang Problems: OJJDP's Comprehensive Gang Model
Report, June 2008. guides communities responding to a gang problem in implementing OJJDP’s Comprehensive Gang Model. It describes best practices learned from practitioners experienced in planning and implementing the model and notes findings from evaluations of programs demonstrating the model. 57 pages. NCJ 222799.
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Bringing Abducted Children Home
AMBER Alert Brochure, April 2005. Explains the origin of the AMBER Alert program, as well as the procedures followed in the event that an Alert is issued, and the goals the program strives to accomplish. 1 page. BC 000712.
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Burn Injuries in Child Abuse
Portable Guide: Portable Guides to Investigating Child Abuse Series, June 2001; revised from May 1997. Assists in distinguishing between burns that were intentionally inflicted on a child and burns resulting from accidental contact with hot objects. 24 pages. NCJ 162424.
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Characteristics of Crimes Against Juveniles
Bulletin: Crimes Against Children Series, June 2000. Examines data from the National Incident-Based Reporting System on the characteristics of crimes committed against juveniles. 12 pages. NCJ 179034.
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Child Abuse Reported to the Police
Bulletin: Crimes Against Children Series, May 2001. Describes the National Incident-Based Reporting System (NIBRS) and its role in depicting police experiences with child abuse and reports key findings derived from NIBRS data. 8 pages. NCJ 187238.
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Child Neglect and Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy
Portable Guide: Portable Guides to Investigating Child Abuse Series, March 2001; revised from September 1996. Defines the concept of parental duty, explores the links between poverty and neglect, describes the ways in which children are neglected and in which cases of neglect may be detected, and discusses Munchausen syndrome by proxy. This publication is not available online. 20 pages. NCJ 161841.
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Child Pornography: Patterns From NIBRS
Bulletin: Crimes Against Children Series, December 2004. Presents findings from the FBI’s National Incident-Based Reporting System. 8 pages. NCJ 204911.
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Child Sexual Exploitation: Improving Investigations and Protecting Victims: A Blueprint for Action
Guide, January 1995. Presents guidelines for collaboration among federal, state, and local agencies involved in the investigation and prosecution of child pornography and prostitution cases and in the provision of services to young victims of these crimes. 64 pages. NCJ 153527.
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Children as Victims (From Juvenile Offenders and Victims: 1999 National Report, 1999, by Howard N. Snyder and Melissa Sickmund)
Bulletin: 1999 National Report Series, May 2000. Presents an overview of statistics on juveniles as victims of crime and maltreatment. 24 pages. NCJ 180753.
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Children’s Exposure to Violence: The Safe Start Initiative
Fact Sheet, April 2001. Presents an overview of the Safe Start Initiative, which is designed to prevent and reduce the impact of violence on young children and their families. 2 pages. FS 200113.
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Combating Violence and Delinquency: The National Juvenile Justice Action Plan; Report
Report, March 1996. Provides a framework and strategy for action to address juvenile violence and victimization that face community members—including youth—and the juvenile justice system. 212 pages. NCJ 157106.
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Combating Violence and Delinquency: The National Juvenile Justice Action Plan Summary
Summary, March 1996. Summarizes the National Juvenile Justice Action Plan, an eight-point statement of objectives and strategies designed to strengthen state and local initiatives to reduce juvenile violence and victimization, increase the capacity of the juvenile justice system to respond, and prevent delinquency. 41 pages. NCJ 157105.
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Crimes Against Children by Babysitters
Bulletin: Crimes Against Children Series, September 2001. Presents information on the frequency and nature of crimes committed against children by babysitters. 8 pages. NCJ 189102.
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Cuando su hijo desaparecido: una guía de supervivencia para la familia (Spanish, 2004 update, revised)
Report, May 2004; revised from 1998 and 2002. Provides Parents with insights into what families should do when a child is missing. 109 pages. NCJ 212870.
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Curfew: An Answer to Juvenile Delinquency and Victimization?
Bulletin, April 1996. Examines recent developments in curfew ordinances, legal issues related to curfews, how jurisdictions have responded to legal challenges, the elements of sound community-based curfew programs, and examples of curfew programs and services from seven jurisdictions. 12 pages. NCJ 159533.
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Domestic Assaults by Juvenile Offenders
Bulletin, November 2008. Analyzes data reported to the FBI's National Incident-Based Reporting System by a large sample of law enforcement agencies from 30 States. Available online only. 8 pages. NCJ 219180
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Effective Use of National Crime Information Center
AMBER Alert Fact Sheet, April 2005. Outlines critical guidelines for registering an abducted child into the National Crime Information Center (NCIC) and suggestions for improving NCIC to increase the likelihood of recovering a missing child. 4 pages. FS 000308.
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Federal Resources on Missing and Exploited Children: A Directory for Law Enforcement and Other Public and Private Agencies, Fourth Edition
Directory, May 2004. Describes the federal services, programs, publications, and training sessions that address child sexual exploitation issues, child pornography, child abduction, Internet crime, and missing children cases. 190 pages. NCJ 206555.
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Federal Resources on Missing and Exploited Children: A Directory for Law Enforcement and Other Public and Private Agencies, Fifth Edition
Directory, May 2007. Describes the federal services, programs, publications, and training sessions that address child sexual exploitation issues, child pornography, child abduction, Internet crime, and missing children cases. 188 pages. NCJ 216857.
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Green Book Demonstration
Fact Sheet, May 2001. Provides information on an integrated approach to family violence. 2 pages. FS 200121.
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Guide for Implementing the Balanced and Restorative Justice Model
Report, December 1998. Establishes an alternative philosophy for a more balanced approach to juvenile justice that emphasizes restorative justice in which offenders make amends to their victims and the community. 95 pages. NCJ 167887.
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Guide for Implementing the Comprehensive Strategy for Serious, Violent, and Chronic Juvenile Offenders
Guide, May 1995. Provides guidance and resources to help states, cities, and communities implement OJJDP's Comprehensive Strategy for Serious, Violent, and Chronic Juvenile Offenders. 269 pages. NCJ 153681.
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Highlights From the NISMART Bulletins
Fact Sheet: National Incidence Studies of Missing, Abducted, Runaway, and Thrownaway Children Series, October 2002. Presents key findings summarized in OJJDP's Bulletin series on the Second National Incidence Studies of Missing, Abducted, Runaway, and Thrownaway Children (NISMART–2). 2 pages. Available online only.
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Highlights of the 2005 National Youth Gang Survey
Fact Sheet, July 2008. Reports findings from the 2005 National Youth Gang Survey. Available online only. 2 pages. FS 200804.
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Highlights of the 2006 National Youth Gang Survey
Fact Sheet, July 2008. Summarizes findings from the 2006 survey and reports data on the number of gangs, gang members, and gang-related crime. Based on survey results, it is estimated that approximately 26,500 gangs and 785,000 gang members were active in the United States in 2006. FS 200805.
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Homicides of Children and Youth
Bulletin, October 2001. Provides a statistical portrait of juvenile homicide victimization by drawing on FBI and other data. 12 pages. NCJ 187239.
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How Families and Communities Influence Youth Victimization
Bulletin, November 2003. Examines how individual, family, and community factors influence the risk for nonlethal violence among U.S. youth ages 12–17. 12 pages. NCJ 201629.
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How the Justice System Responds to Juvenile Victims: A Comprehensive Model
Bulletin: Crimes Against Children Series, December 2005. Introduces the concept of a juvenile victim justice system, identifying the major elements of the system by delineating how cases move through it. 12 pages. NCJ 210951.
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Interviewing Child Witnesses and Victims of Sexual Abuse
Portable Guide: Portable Guides to Investigating Child Abuse Series, July 2006; revised from August 1996. Provides practical information for law enforcement officers, child protection workers, child abuse investigators, and others who need to obtain information from children who may be victims or witnesses of child sexual abuse. This publication is not available online. 28 pages. NCJ 214124.
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Juvenile Justice Journal, Vol 9, No 1, September 2004
Journal: Juvenile Justice Journal, September 2004. Focuses on research that assess how and why children become delinquent, including its value in preventing and combating delinquency. 40 pages. NCJ 203555.
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Juvenile Justice Journal, Volume III, Number 1 (Community-Based Juvenile Justice Issue)
Journal: Juvenile Justice Series, December 1996. Describes community-based efforts to institute restorative justice measures and to provide aftercare services to juvenile offenders. 39 pages. NCJ 161410.
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Juvenile Offenders and Victims: A Focus on Violence
Report, August 1995. Presents comprehensive information on juvenile crime, violence, and victimization and on the juvenile justice system. This publication is not available online. 100 pages. NCJ 153570.
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Juvenile Offenders and Victims: 2006 National Report
Report, March 2006. Presents comprehensive information on juvenile crime, violence, and victimization and on the juvenile justice system. 260 pages. NCJ 212906.
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Juvenile Victimization: 1987-1992
Fact Sheet, June 1994. Presents national data on violent crimes committed against juveniles from 1987 through 1992; the statistics in this Fact Sheet are drawn from the annual National Crime Victimization Survey conducted by the Bureau of Justice Statistics. 2 pages. FS 9417.
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Juvenile Victims of Property Crimes
Bulletin: Crimes Against Children Series, December 2000. Presents data on juvenile victims of property crimes. 12 pages. NCJ 184740.
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Keeping Children Safe: OJJDP's Child Protection Division
Bulletin, March 2001. Describes OJJDP's Child Protection Division and its efforts to safeguard children by supporting research and programs on child victimization and exposure to violence; providing information and training and technical assistance to state, local, and community-based agencies; and developing and demonstrating effective child protection initiatives. 8 pages. NCJ 186158.
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Kidnapping of Juveniles: Patterns From NIBRS
Bulletin: Crimes Against Children Series, July 2000. Examines data from the National Incident-Based Reporting System on kidnaping of juveniles. 8 pages. NCJ 181161.
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Kids and Guns
Bulletin: 1999 National Report Series, March 2000. Presents an overview of statistics indicative of the impact of gun availability on the lives of youth. 12 pages. NCJ 178994.
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Missing, Abducted, Runaway, and Thrownaway Children in America
Report, May 1990. Estimates the incidence of children who were abducted by family members, abducted by nonfamily members, runaways, throwaways, and missing because they had gotten lost or injured. 407 pages. NCJ 123668.
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National Estimates of Children Missing Involuntarily or for Benign Reasons
Bulletin: OJJDP NISMART Series, July 2005. Provides information on the numbers and characteristics of two groups not often recognized in the literature on missing children: children involuntarily missing because they were lost or injured and those missing because of a benign explanation such as a miscommunication or mistaken expectation. 12 pages. NCJ 206180.
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OJJDP News @ a Glance, March/April 2008
Newsletter: OJJDP News @ a Glance, March/April 2008. Features OJJDP conferences for faith-based and community organizations, the OJJDP Administrator’s and Deputy Administrator’s remarks at several events, training sessions for new and experienced disproportionate minority contact coordinators, and a preview of OJJDP’s national youth gang symposium. Available online only. NCJ 222388.
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Nurturing Parenting Programs
Bulletin: Family Strengthening Series, November 2000. Describes the Nurturing Parenting Programs, a family-centered parenting initiative designed to address the generational cycle of violence in which parents rear children in the context of the violence they experienced as children. 12 pages. NCJ 172848.
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OJJDP Annual Report 2005
Report, August 2008. Describes the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention's major activities and accomplishments during fiscal year 2005 (October 1, 2004, to September 30, 2005), which reflect the Office's continuing commitment to programs that have the greatest potential for reducing juvenile delinquency and the victimization of children as well as improving the juvenile justice system. Available online only. 84 pages. NCJ 215560.
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OJJDP News @ a Glance, January/February 2008
Newsletter: OJJDP News @ a Glance, January/February 2008. Features National Mentoring Month, AMBER Alert Awareness Day, and OJJDP’s involvement in numerous conference and training programs. Available online only. NCJ 221373.
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OJJDP News @ a Glance, July/August 2006
Newsletter: OJJDP News @ a Glance, July/August 2006. Highlights the OJJDP-supported gang reduction program, Homeboy Industries, the conference on Child Advocacy Centers, and a report on the upcoming National Youth Court Month. Available online only. NCJ 214739
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OJJDP News @ a Glance, May/June 2006
Newsletter: OJJDP News @ a Glance, May/June 2006. Includes a special feature highlighting the U.S. Department of Justice’s 2-part webcast, “Preventing Gangs in Our Communities,” which was supported by OJJDP and the Office of Community Oriented Policing Services. Available online only. NCJ 214512
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OJJDP News @ a Glance, November/December 2005
Newsletter: OJJDP News @ a Glance, November/December 2005. Includes features on the Children’s Advocacy Center initiative to address the problems of victimized children, and OJJDP’s support for faith-based and community-based efforts to help at-risk youth. Available online only. NCJ 211992.
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OJJDP News @ a Glance, September/October 2005
Newsletter: OJJDP News @ a Glance, September/October 2005. Includes a special feature on the upcoming national conference “Building on Success: Providing Today’s Youth With Opportunities for a Better Tomorrow. Available online only. NCJ 211153.
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OJJDP News @ a Glance, September/October 2006
Newsletter: OJJDP News @ a Glance, September/October 2006. Includes a special feature on two recent OJJDP-sponsored conferences that addressed the topic of child protection, the Adam Walsh Child Protection and Safety Act and a review of upcoming training events. Available online only. NCJ 215775.
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OJJDP News @ a Glance, September/October 2008
Newsletter: OJJDP News @ a Glance, September/October 2008. Highlights the OJJDP guide for child abduction survivors, You’re Not Alone: The Journey From Abduction to Empowerment, which was recently featured on a national television talk show. Available online only. NCJ 224013.
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OJJDP News @ a Glance, Volume I, Number 5 (September/October 2002)
Newsletter: OJJDP News @ a Glance Series, September/October 2002. Presents notices of OJJDP activities, publications, funding opportunities, and events; includes a special feature on the first White House Conference on Missing, Exploited, and Runaway Children. 6 pages. NCJ 196856.
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Overview of the Portable Guides to Investigating Child Abuse: Update 2000
Bulletin, February 2000. Updates Portable Guides to Investigating Child Abuse: An Overview, the original Bulletin summarizing OJJDP's Portable Guides to Investigating Child Abuse, a series designed for detectives, police officers, social workers, psychologists, attorneys—anyone who works on child victimization issues. 12 pages. NCJ 178893.
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Parental Abduction: A Review of the Literature
Literature Review, December 2001. Examines the extent of the problem of parental abduction, the characteristics of those involved in parental abductions, and the effect of the crime on children and parents; this document is a companion to the OJJDP Bulletin The Criminal Justice System's Response to Parental Abduction. 13 pages. NCJ 190074.
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Parental Kidnapping
Fact Sheet, November 1995. Discusses the impact of abduction on children, strategies for handling parental abduction investigations, and the federal response and provides a list of OJJDP and National Center for Missing and Exploited Children publications that provide additional information about parental kidnapping. 2 pages. FS 9534.
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Portable Guides to Investigating Child Abuse: An Overview
Bulletin, June 1997. Summarizes OJJDP's Portable Guides to Investigating Child Abuse, a series of publications that addresses a different aspect of investigating suspected cases of child abuse or neglect and that is designed for detectives, police officers, social workers, psychologists, attorneys, and others. 8 pages. NCJ 165153.
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Prostitution of Juveniles: Patterns From NIBRS
Bulletin: Crimes Against Children Series, June 2004. Examines the prostitution of juveniles by analyzing incidents of this problem that come to the attention of law enforcement. 12 pages. NCJ 203946.
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Recognizing When a Child's Injury or Illness is Caused by Abuse
Portable Guide: Portable Guides to Investigating Child Abuse Series, July 2006; revised from December 2002. Provides practical pointers for police in determining whether a child's injuries are accidental or intentional. 28 pages. NCJ 214125.
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Reporting Crimes Against Juveniles
Bulletin: Crimes Against Children Series, November 1999. Presents an analysis of National Crime Victimization Survey data on reports of crimes against juveniles to police and other authorities (e.g., school officials). 8 pages. NCJ 178887.
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Restorative Justice Conferences as an Early Response to Young Offenders
Bulletin, August 2001. Describes restorative justice conferencing, a promising form of early intervention for very young offenders that brings together an offending youth, his or her victim, and supporters of both the offender and victim with a trained facilitator. 12 pages. NCJ 187769.
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Safe From the Start: Taking Action on Children Exposed to Violence
Summary, November 2000. Presents an action plan for addressing the problem of children's exposure to violence. 76 pages. NCJ 182789.
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Sexually Assaulted Children: National Estimates and Characteristics
Bulletin: National Incidence Studies of Missing, Abducted, Runaway, and Thrownaway Children Series, August 2008. Provides information on the estimated number and characteristics of children who were sexually assaulted in the United States in 1999. NCJ 214383.
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Short- and Long-Term Consequences of Adolescent Victimization
Bulletin: Youth Violence Research Series, February 2002. Analyzes National Youth Survey data to explore how being a victim of crime during adolescence affects the likelihood of certain negative outcomes in adulthood, including violent and property offending and victimization, domestic violence perpetration and victimization, drug use, and mental health problems. 16 pages. NCJ 191210.
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Statutory Rape Known to Law Enforcement
Bulletin, August 2005. Draws on data from the FBI’s National Incident-Based Reporting System to provide a comprehensive look at the patterns of and response to statutory rape. 4 pages. NCJ 208803.
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Teens, Crime, and the Community
Fact Sheet: Youth in Action Series, September 1999. Describes the activities and goals of Teens, Crime, and the Community, a national program that combines education and action to reduce teen victimization. 2 pages. YFS 9904.
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Trends in Juvenile Violent Offending From 1980 to 1998: The NCVS Perspective
Bulletin, October 2002. Presents information on trends in juvenile violent offending over the past two decades, based on data collected from the victims of those offenses by the National Crime Victimization Survey. 20 pages. NCJ 191052.
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U.S. Department of Justice Recommended AMBER Alert Criteria
AMBER Alert Pocket Card, April 2005. Lists the criteria necessary for issuing an AMBER Alert and stresses five important principles to remember when entering and processing data in the National Crime Information Center (NCIC) system. 2 pages. LT000498.
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Violence After School
Bulletin: 1999 National Report Series, November 1999. Presents information on temporal patterns (time of day, school-day versus non-school-day) of violent crimes committed by and against juveniles; excerpted from Juvenile Offenders and Victims: 1999 National Report. 8 pages. NCJ 178992.
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Violence by Teenage Girls: Trends and Context
Bulletin: Girls Study Group Series, May 2008. Examines the involvement of girls in violent activity (including whether such activity has increased relative to the increase for boys) and the contexts in which girls engage in violent behavior. Available online only. 24 pages. NCJ 218905.
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Violent Families and Youth Violence
Fact Sheet, December 1994. Presents data from the Rochester Youth Development Study to address the following questions: (1) Are children who are victims of maltreatment and abuse during childhood more apt to be violent when they are adolescents? and (2) Are children who are exposed to multiple forms of family violence—not just maltreatment—more likely to be violent? 2 pages. FS 9421.
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Violent Neighborhoods, Violent Kids
Bulletin, March 2000. Presents findings of research that examined the types of delinquent behavior found among boys living in the three most violent neighborhoods in Washington, DC, and the role that institutions such as families, schools, churches, and youth-serving organizations play in the boys' lives. 16 pages. NCJ 178248.
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When Your Child is Missing: A Family Survival Guide, Third Edition
Report, May 2004; revised from 1998. Provides parents with the most current information on, and helpful insights into, what families should do when a child is missing. 108 pages. NCJ 204958.
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Working Together to Stop the Prostitution of Children Videoconference
Videotape/DVD: OJJDP Teleconference Series, December 2003. This videoconference, which originally aired on December 11, 2003, examined the challenges faced by policymakers, juvenile justice officials, and other youth service professionals who are concerned with the commercial sexual exploitation of children and youth. ; view the broadcast on the Juvenile Justice Teleconferencing Web site. Videotape: NCJ 203280. DVD: NCJ212279.
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You're Not Alone: The Journey From Abduction to Empowerment
Guide, May 2008. Presents several stories of child abduction survivors and how they have grown and developed from their traumatic experiences. 70 pages. NCJ 221965.
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