Missing and Exploited Children : Overview and Policy Concerns.

Provides an overview of two national incidence studies prepared by the DOJ Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention to determine annually the number of children reported missing in the U.S. and the number recovered in a given year. Discusses the AMBER Alert System, which was created to...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Authors: Library of Congress. Congressional Research Service, ProQuest (Firm)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: [Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], 2004.
Series:U.S. Congressional Research.
Subjects:
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Description
Summary:Provides an overview of two national incidence studies prepared by the DOJ Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention to determine annually the number of children reported missing in the U.S. and the number recovered in a given year. Discusses the AMBER Alert System, which was created to help recover reported missing children, Administration actions in support of the AMBER system, and legislative action in the 108th Congresses.
Item Description:Record is based on bibliographic data in ProQuest U.S. Congressional Research Digital Collection (last viewed Nov. 2010). Reuse except for individual research requires license from ProQuest, LLC.
CRS Report.
Electronic resource.
Physical Description:1 online resource.