August 20, 2008

The Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) has published two additional bulletins in its National Incidence Studies of Missing, Abducted, Runaway, and Thrownaway Children (NISMART) series.

• Sexually Assaulted Children: National Estimates and Characteristics (NCJ 214383), the seventh bulletin in the series, provides information on the estimated number and characteristics of children who were sexually assaulted in the United States in 1999.
• Caretaker Satisfaction With Law Enforcement Response to Missing Children (NCJ 217909), the eighth and final bulletin in the series, examines the perceptions of primary caretakers who contacted police when their children were abducted, ran away, were thrown away, or missing.

Resources:

“Sexually Assaulted Children: National Estimates and Characteristics” is available online at http://ojjdp.ncjrs.gov/publications/PubAbstract.asp?pubi=235922.

“Caretaker Satisfaction With Law Enforcement Response to Missing Children” is available online at http://ojjdp.ncjrs.gov/publications/PubAbstract.asp?pubi=239596.

Print copies of these bulletins, and others in the NISMART series, may be ordered at http://www.ncjrs.gov/app/publications/alphaList.aspx. For quick access, search by document number.

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