Written in conjunction with the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention within the U.S. Department of Justice, and University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing, this book presents the findings from interviews and record reviews of various nonfamily offenders who abducted 119 children younger than 6 months of age between 1983 and 1992. [PDF Format].

Contains step-by-step information for parents who have experienced a family abduction, domestic or international. Guides parents through the civil- and criminal-justice systems, explains the laws that will help them, outlines prevention methods, and provides suggestions for aftercare following the abduction. [PDF Format].

Targeted at maternal/child-care nurses, healthcare security administrators, law-enforcement officials, public-relations officers, and parents. Recommends actions to be taken to prevent an infant abduction from a healthcare facility or home, and outlines the steps to be taken if an abduction occurs. [PDF Format].

This report details the findings of a Forum held in September 1998 to study the Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction and offers 12 action-agenda items to help strengthen its implementation. [PDF Format].

Authored by a team of 38 professionals from local, state, and federal agencies, this guide outlines a standard of practice for law-enforcement officers handling missing-child cases whether runaways, thrownaways, family/nonfamily abductions, or when the circumstances of the disappearance are unknown. [PDF Format].

Written in cooperation with the U.S. Department of Justice's Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention's Missing and Exploited Children Comprehensive Action Program, this guide was designed to educate and assist professionals who bear the primary responsibility of recovering and reuniting missing children with their families. It offers best practice guidelines and training tips for returning a recovered child to his or her family and discusses the dynamics of criminal victimization involved in a child abduction. [PDF Format].

Brief issues paper on child abductions by family members. [PDF Format].