Executive Summary The Better Cybercrime Metrics Act directs the Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS), in coordination with the Bureau of the Census, to include questions relating to cybercrime victimization on the National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS). This report, developed through … Read More
Child Welfare
Child Safety Forward Implementation Study Final Report
Executive Summary Initiative Overview In October 2019, the U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Justice Programs, Office for Victims of Crime (OVC) launched Child Safety Forward (CSF), a three-year demonstration initiative to develop multidisciplinary strategies and responses to address serious … Read More
Indian Child Welfare (ICW)Quarterly and Annual Report
ICW Reporting Form Guides BIA’s decision making. The data collected: What is the ICWA Report? Tribes or Tribal organizations receiving grants under ICWA arerequired to submit data on a quarterly and annual basis (25CFR 23.47) Section on Tribal ICWA programs … Read More
Engaging Survivors of Human Trafficking
Survivor Engagement in the Anti-Trafficking Field: History, Lessons Learned, and Looking Forward Survivors of human trafficking play a vital role in combating this crime. Their perspective and experience should be taken into consideration to better address this crime and to … Read More
Extraterritorial Child Sexual Abuse
Extraterritorial child sexual abuse, often misleadingly referred to as “child sex tourism,” involves United States citizens or lawful permanent resident aliens who either: 1) travel to a foreign country with a motivating purpose of engaging in any “illicit sexual conduct” … Read More
Sextortion, Crowdsourcing, Enticement, and Coercion
Because offenders use a variety of techniques to manipulate minors into producing child sexual abuse material (CSAM), the child exploitation threat is constantly evolving. Some of those techniques include engaging in sextortion and crowdsourcing schemes which use enticement and coercion … Read More
Grand Resource: Help for Grandfamilies Impacted by Opioids and Other Substance Use Part 2
More than 2.6 million children are raised by grandparents, aunts, uncles, siblings, other extended family and close family friends who step forward to care for them when parents cannot. With the rise in heroin and other opioid use, more relatives … Read More
Live Streaming and Virtual Child Sex Trafficking
Online child sexual exploitation has increased dramatically over the past few decades. Minors access digital devices, the internet, and social media platforms at much younger ages than in the past, and devices and platforms are expanding the capacity for image … Read More
Fact Sheet: Children Thrive in Grandfamilies
More than 2.5 million children across the U.S. are raised in grandfamilies (also known as kinship families).1 These are families in which grandparents, other adult family members, or close family friends are raising children, with no parents in the home. … Read More
What’s at Stake as Public Spending on Kids Declines?
The child poverty rate increased dramatically in 2022 after dropping to a historic low in 2021, according to new Census Bureau data. The drop in child poverty in 2021 was largely attributable to the temporary expansion of the child tax credit (CTC) and to the … Read More