Discuss missing and exploited children. Address the NISMART project
What will be an ideal response?
Oftentimes, these children are "missing" by choice because of intolerable conditions in the home, including abuse and violence.
The Missing Children's Act was passed in 1982 and the Missing Children's Assistance Act in 1984
The Missing Children's Assistance Act of 1984 defines a missing child as:
Any individual, less than 18 years of age, whose whereabouts are unknown to such individual's legal custodian—if the circumstances surrounding the disappearance indicate that (the child) may possibly have been removed by another person from the control of his/her legal custodian without the custodian's consent; or the circumstances of the case strongly indicate that (the child) is likely to be abused or sexually exploited.
This act requires the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) to conduct periodic national incidence studies to determine the actual number of children reported missing and the number of missing children recovered for a given year.
This requirement is being met through the National Incidence Studies of Missing, Abducted, Runaway, and Thrownaway Children in America (NISMART). NISMART has completed its second in-depth study of this population and has identified six episode types of missing children.
The six episode types of missing children included in the NISMART-2 study are missing benign explanation; missing involuntary, lost or injured; runaway/thrownaway; nonfamily abduction; stereotypical kidnapping; and family abduction.
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