December 2001 |
The Criminal Justice
System's Response to Parental Abduction
Definition and Legal Framework Phase 1: Findings From the National Survey Phase 2: Findings From Site Visits Phase 3: Findings From Case File Reviews NCJ 186160 This Bulletin was prepared under grant number 93–MC–CX–0010 from the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, U.S. Department of Justice. The Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention is a component of the Office of Justice Programs, which also includes the Bureau of Justice Assistance, the Bureau of Justice Statistics, the National Institute of Justice, and the Office for Victims of Crime.
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At the time of this Bulletin’s development, Kathi L. Grasso, J.D., was Director of
the Child and Adolescent Health Law Program at the American Bar Association’s
Center on Children and the Law. She is now Director of OJJDP’s Research and
Development Division. Andrea J. Sedlak, Ph.D., is Associate Director of Human
Services Research at Westat. Janet L. Chiancone, M.S., is a Program Manager
in the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention’s Research and
Program Development Division. Frances Gragg, M.A., is a Senior Project Director
at Westat. Dana Schultz, M.P.P., is a Project Analyst at Westat. Joseph F. Ryan,
Ph.D., is a former detective with the New York City Police Department and currently
the Chair of the Department of Criminal Justice and Sociology at Pace University
in New York and a nationally recognized expert on police response to intimate
violence.
Other individuals involved with this research included Susan J.Wells, Ph.D.,
Patricia Hoff, Esq., Diane D. Broadhurst, M.L.A., and Lisa Altenbernd. Project
Advisory Board members were Martha-Elin Blomquist, Ph.D., Judge Christopher
Foley, and Janet Kosid Uthe, Esq.
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