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National Study of Law Enforcement Agencies' Policies Regarding Missing Children and Homeless Youth, 1986 / James J. Collins, Mary Ellen McCalla, Linda L. Powers, Ellen S. Stutts.
- Format:
- Datafile
- Series:
- ICPSR (Series) ; 6127.
- ICPSR ; 6127
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Law enforcement--United States.
- Law enforcement.
- Missing children.
- United States.
- Missing children--United States.
- Homeless youth--United States.
- Homeless youth.
- Genre:
- Academic theses.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource.
- Edition:
- ICPSR Version, 2005-11-04.
- Place of Publication:
- Ann Arbor, Mich. : Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 1995.
- System Details:
- Mode of access: World Wide Web.
- data file
- Summary:
- The purpose of the study was to provide information about law enforcement agencies' handling of missing child cases, including the rates of closure for these cases, agencies' initial investigative procedures for handling such reports, and obstacles to investigation. Case types identified include runaway, parental abduction, stranger abduction, and missing for unknown reasons. Other key variables provide information about the existence and types of policies within law enforcement agencies regarding missing child reports, such as a waiting period and classification of cases. The data also contain information about the cooperation of and use of the National Center of Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) and the National Crime Information Center (NCIC).
- Contents:
- Part 1: Data File; Part 2: SAS Data Definition Statements
- Notes:
- Title from ICPSR DDI metadata of 2006-09-15.
- OCLC:
- 61156484
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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