Book Description
The Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention of the U.S. Department of Justice presents the full text of an article entitled "Second Comprehensive Study of Missing Children," by Louise Hanson. The article discusses studies of the office on the scope of the problem of missing children in the United States. The National Incidence Studies of Missing, Abducted, Runaway, and Thrownaway Children highlights data on the incidence of missing children in eight categories, including nonfamily and family abduction, missing due to injury, sexually assaulted, custodial interference, and lost and involuntarily missing, among others.