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Caretaker Satisfaction With Law Enforcement Response to Missing Children
(NCJ 217909) August 2008
OJJDP NISMART Series, Bulletin
Hammer, H., Finkelhor, D., Ormrod, R.K., Sedlak, A.J., and Bruce, C.
 
Examines satisfaction with law enforcement from the perspective of all primary caretakers who contacted police when one or more of their children experienced a qualifying episode in the Second National Incidence Studies of Missing, Abducted, Runaway, and Thrownaway Children (NISMART–2) National Household Survey of Adult Caretakers. This Bulletin is the eighth in the NISMART–2 series.
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