Kidnapping
Investigative Strategies for Child Abduction Cases
Event Dates
–
Eastern
Location
Dunbar, WV and Online
Dunbar, WV
Event Type
Classroom
911 Telecommunicators and Missing and Abducted Children
Event Dates
–
Eastern
Location
Rancho Cordova, CA
Rancho Cordova, CA
Event Type
Classroom
Keeping Hope Alive: The AMBER Alert Program
January 2025
This OJJDP video has been updated for 2025 and highlights the history and groundbreaking moments that established and propelled the AMBER Alert program that is used across the nation to safely recover missing and abducted children.
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Protecting At-Risk Tribal Youth: First Response Pocket Guide
Date Published
2015
Publication Type
Publication
Agencies
OJJDP-Sponsored
AMBER Alert Best Practices for Public Information Officers (PIOs)
Date Published
2020
Publication Type
Best Practice/State-of-the-Art Review
Agencies
OJJDP-Sponsored
Initial Response Strategies and Tactics When Responding to Missing Children Incidents
Event Dates
–
Eastern
Location
Morris Plains, NJ
Morris Plains, NJ
Event Type
Classroom
Unidentified Human Remains
Date Published
January 2024
Agencies
OJJDP-Sponsored
When Your Child Is Missing: A Family Survival Guide, Fifth Edition
Date Published
May 2023
Publication Type
Reference Material
Agencies
OJJDP-Sponsored
Fourth National Incidence Studies of Missing, Abducted, Runaway and Thrownaway Children (NISMART‐4) Law Enforcement Survey – Stereotypical Kidnapping (LES-SK) Technical Report
Date Published
February 2022
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
NISMART-2 Household Survey: Public Data User's Guide
Date Published
2005
Publication Type
Survey
Agencies
OJJDP-Sponsored
Child Safety Is More Than a Slogan: Stranger Danger Warnings Not Effective at Keeping Kids Safer
Date Published
May 2011
Publication Type
Report (Technical Assistance),
Report (Grant Sponsored),
Instructional Material,
Factsheet
Agencies
OJJDP-Sponsored
Missing, Abducted, Runaway, and Thrownaway Children in America
Date Published
May 1990
Publication Type
Survey
Agencies
OJJDP-Sponsored
National Estimates of Missing Children: Updated Findings From a Survey of Parents and Other Primary Caretakers
Date Published
June 2017
Series
Publication Type
Survey,
Research (Applied/Empirical),
Report (Technical Assistance),
Report (Grant Sponsored)
Agencies
OJJDP
Child Victims of Stereotypical Kidnappings Known to Law Enforcement in 2011
Date Published
June 2016
Series
Publication Type
Statistics,
Issue Overview
Agencies
OJJDP
Parental Kidnapping
Date Published
November 1995
Publication Type
Technical Assistance,
Issue Overview
Agencies
OJJDP