National Incidence Studies of Missing, Abducted, Runaway, and Thrownaway Children (NISMART), 1988 / David Finkelhor, Gerald Hotaling, Andrea Sedlak.

Format:

Datafile

Contributor:

Finkelhor, David.

Hotaling, Gerald.

Sedlak, Andrea.

Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research.

Series:

ICPSR (Series) ; 9682.

ICPSR ; 9682

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Missing children--United States.

Missing children.

Runaway children--United States.

Runaway children.

Abduction--United States.

Abduction.

Child abuse--United States.

Child abuse.

Abandoned children.

United States.

Abandoned children--United States.

Household surveys--United States.

Household surveys.

Genre:

Academic theses.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Edition:

ICPSR edition.

Place of Publication:

Ann Arbor, Mich. : Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 1992.

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

data file

Summary:

This collection was undertaken in response to the mandate of the 1984 Missing Children Act. The objective of the act was to estimate the incidence of five categories of children: children abducted by family members, children abducted by nonfamily members, runaways, thrownaways (those not wanted by their families or taken from families because of abuse or neglect), and children considered missing. Data were collected by several different methods. The centerpiece of this collection is a household survey (Parts 19, 20, and 35) that interviewed families to determine whether any children fit the categories under study. Basic demographic information on age, race, and sex was collected, and questions on the family situation were asked of identified children and their parents and siblings. A survey of juvenile facilities (Parts 28 and 29) was also conducted to determine how many children had run away from these facilities. Facility administrators were prompted for demographic information on the runaways as well as for information on the structure of the runaways' families. In addition, a survey of returned runaways (children who had run away and returned home) (Part 30) was completed to find out whether children's accounts of runaway episodes matched the accounts given by their parents. Children were queried about their relationships with their parents and their views of their contributions to the family. They were also asked about each specific runaway episode: whether they actually ran away or were asked to leave, how long the episode lasted, whether friends knew about it, whether friends accompanied them, whether they used drugs before, during, or after the episode, how they were found, where they were found, and whether disciplinary action was taken. The police records component (Parts 31-33) contains information on homicides, abductions, and sexual assaults.... Cf.: http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR09682

Contents:

Part 19: Institution and Child Link Segment Data; Part 20: Institution Type Data; Part 28: Juvenile Facilities Survey, Part 1; Part 29: Juvenile Facilities Survey, Part 2; Part 30: Returned Runaways Survey; Part 31: Police Records

Abductions Data; Part 32: Police Records

Homicide Data; Part 33: Police Records

Sexual Assault Data; Part 35: Household Hierarchical Data; Part 36: SAS Data Definition Statements for Household Hierarchical Data; Part 37: SAS Data Definition Statements for Institution and Child LinkSegment Data; Part 38: SAS Data Definition Statements for Institution Type Data; Part 39: SAS Data Definition Statements for Juvenile Facilities Survey, Part 1; Part 40: SAS Data Definition Statements for Juvenile Facilities Survey,Part 2; Part 41: SAS Data Definition Statements for Returned Runaways Survey; Part 42: SAS Data Definition Statements for Police Records

AbductionsData; Part 43: SAS Data Definition Statements for Police Records

Homicide Data; Part 44: SAS Da...

Notes:

Title from ICPSR DDI metadata of 2004-10-30.

OCLC:

61163422

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