Second Comprehensive Study of Missing Children


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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.




National Estimates of Children Missing Involuntarily Or for Benign Reasons


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This Bulletin provides information on the numbers and characteristics of two groups of children not frequently recognized in the literature on missing children: those involuntarily missing because they were lost, injured, or stranded and those missing for benign reasons. The estimates reported in this Bulletin are derived from two components of the Second National Incidence Studies of Missing, Abducted, Runaway, and Thrownaway Children (NISMART-2): the National Household Survey of Adult Caretakers and the National Household Survey of Youth. These surveys were conducted during 1999 and reflect the experiences of children in the United States over a 12-month period. Because the vast majority of cases were concentrated in 1999, the annual period the Bulletin refers to is 1999.




"Missing Children"


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