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Special Focus - Juvenile Issues

NCJ Number
93618
Journal
Police Chief Volume: 51 Issue: 2 Dated: (February 1984) Pages: 26-56,58-61
Editor(s)
N Darwick
Date Published
1984
Length
35 pages
Annotation
Articles focusing on police-juvenile issues consider programs that involve youth in crime prevention, child sexual abuse, juvenile justice training, juvenile diversion, the multijurisdictional youth officer, and police racial discrimination against juvenile offenders.
Abstract
Articles on youth crime-prevention programs and police-juvenile relations consider the Boy Scout Law Enforcement Explorers program, the requirements of a Boy Scout merit badge in crime prevention, and an inner city program called Teens on Patrol. Articles on child protection focus on law enforcement's responsibilities under the Federal Missing Children Act and a program for fingerprinting children to assist in their identification if they are later missing. Articles dealing with the sexual abuse of children address a 10-State survey of the investigation of sex crimes against children, a profile of children used in the production of child pornography, police investigation of child sexual abuse, investigating incest, the dynamics within an incestuous family, and a profile of pedophiles. Other articles consider the juvenile justice training program provided by the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center at Glynco (Georgia), the juvenile police diversion program of the Dallas Police Department, the work of the mutijurisdictional youth officer, and an examination of whether police do racially discriminate against juvenile offenders. Photographs are included.