04--Runaways:  Legal, Congresses & Legislation

A report on chronic runaways, lockouts, and truant youths / prepared for the Florida Senate by the staff of the Senate Committees on Criminal Justice; Children, Families and Seniors; Education; and Ways and Means.  Tallahassee, FL:  The Committees, 1996. 

Annual report to the Congress on the status and accomplishments of the centers funded under the Runaway and Homeless Youth Act.  Submitted by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Human Development Services, Administration for Children, Youth and Families, Youth Development Bureau.  Since 1982.  Washington, D.C.:  U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services.

Annual report, runaway youth programs.  Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, Juvenile Services Administration.  Baltimore, MD:  The Administration, 1986-present.

Beaser, Herbert Wilton.  Runaway youth from what to where:  the legal status of runaway children:  final report, April, 1975.  Washington:  U.S. Dept. of Health, Education, and Welfare, Office of Human Development, Office of Youth Development, 1977.  410p.

Children in crisis:  a report on runaway and homeless youth in Alaska.  Department of Health and Social Services, Division of Family and Youth Services.  Juneau, Alaska:  The Division, 1992.  51p.

D'Angelo, Rocco, ed.  Confrontations with youth:  a critical analysis of process and proceedings of Ohio's Youth Flight Conference, 1974.  Columbus:  College of Administrative Science, Ohio State University, 1976.  308p.

Exploitation of runaways:  hearing before the Subcommittee on Children, Family, Drugs, and Alcoholism of the Committee on Labor and Human Resources, United States Senate, Ninety-ninth Congress, first session, on examining alternative ways to serve runaway and homeless youths, October 1, 1985.  Washington:  GPO, 1986.  123p.

Exploited and missing children:  hearing before the Subcommittee on Juvenile Justice of the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, Ninety-seventh Congress, second session, on S. 1701 ... April 1, 1982.  Washington:  GPO, 1982.  92p.

Hearings on the Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act:  hearings before the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Youth, and Families of the Committee on Economic and Educational Opportunities, House of Representatives, One Hundred Fourth Congress, second session, hearings held in Washington, DC, March 28, April 30, May 8, and San Marcos, California, May 13, 1996.  Washington:  GPO, 1996.  317p.

Hearings on the reauthorization of the Juvenile Justice  Delinquency Prevention Act:  hearings before the Subcommittee on Human Resources of the Committee on Education and Labor, House of Representatives, One Hundred Second Congress, second session, hearings held in Washington, DC, February 5 and 11, 1992.  Washington:  GPO, 1992.  183p.

Hearings on the reauthorization of Title 3(b) of the Anti-Drug Abuse Act of 1988:  drug abuse education and prevention programs for runaway and homeless youth and youth gangs:  hearings before the Subcommittee on Human Resources of the Committee on Education and Labor, House of Representatives, One Hundred Second Congress, first session, hearings held in Washington, DC, July 18 and Downey, CA, August 2, 1991.  Washington:  GPO, 1991.  206p.

Homeless youth:  the saga of "pushouts" and "throwaways" in America:  report of the Subcommittee on the Constitution of the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, Ninety-sixth Congress, second session.  Washington:  GPO, 1980.  256p.

Juvenile Justice, Runaway Youth, and Missing Children's Act Amendments of 1984:  hearing before the Subcommittee on Human Resources of the Committee on Education and Labor, House of Representatives, Ninety-eighth Congress, second session on H.R. 4971 ... hearing held in Washington, DC, March 7, 1984.  Washington:  GPO, 1984.  714p.

Missing and exploited children:  hearing before the Subcommittee on Juvenile Justice of the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, Ninety-ninth Congress, first session, on S. 1174 ... Lexington, KY, August 21, 1985.  Washington:  GPO, 1986.  73p.

Missing children:  hearing before the Subcommittee on Investigations and General Oversight of the Committee on Labor and Human Resources, United States Senate, Ninety-seventh Congress, first session, on to explore the cause and effect of missing children, focusing on home environment, local law enforcement agencies, and citizen action groups, October 6, 1981.  Washington:  GPO, 1982.  205p.

Missing Children's Act:  hearings before the Subcommittee on Civil and Constitutional Rights of the Committee on the Judiciary, House of Representatives, Ninety-seventh Congress, first session, on H.R. 3781 ... November 18 and 30, 1981.  Washington:  GPO, 1982.  127p.

National statistical survey on runaway youth / prepared under contract HEW 105-75-2105 for the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, Office of Human Development, Office of Youth Development.  Princeton, NJ:  Opinion Research Corp., 1976.  250p.

Oversight hearing on runaway and homeless youth program:  hearing before the Subcommittee on Human Resources of the Committee on Education and Labor, House of Representatives, Ninety-seventh Congress, second session hearing held in Washington, D.C., on May 5, 1982.  Washington:  GPO, 1982.  211p.

Oversight hearing on runaway and homeless youth:  hearing before the Subcommittee on Human Resources of the Committee on Education and Labor, House of Representatives, Ninety-ninth Congress, first session, hearing held in Washington, DC, July 25, 1985.  Washington:  GPO, 1985.  182p.

Oversight hearing on the Runaway youth act:  hearing before the Subcommittee on Economic Opportunity of the Committee on Education and Labor, House of Representatives, Ninety-fifth Congress, second session, hearing held in Washington, D.C. on March 7, 1978.  Washington:  GPO, 1978.  361p.

Paradise, Emily, & Robert Horowitz.  Runaway and homeless youth:  a survey of state law.  Washington, DC:  ABA Center on Children and the Law, 1994. 

Private sector initiatives regarding missing children:  hearing before the Subcommittee on Juvenile Justice of the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, Ninety-ninth Congress, first session, on the issue of missing children: runaways, parental abduction, and kidnapping, and the responses of the private sector to this problem, May 22, 1985.  Washington:  GPO, 1986.  74p.

Problems of runaway youth:  hearing before the Subcommittee on Juvenile Justice of the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, Ninety-seventh Congress, second session, on problems of and services provided for runaway and homeless youth, focusing on support to state and local governments and nonprofit agencies for the development of community-based programs, July 22, 1982.  Washington:  GPO, 1983.  106p.

Reauthorization of the Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act:  runaway and homeless youth:  hearing before the Subcommittee on Human Resources of the Committee on Education and Labor, House of Representatives, One Hundredth Congress, second session on H.R. 1801, hearing held in Akron, OH, March 5, 1988.  Washington:  GPO, 1988.  87p.

Report of the Division for Children, on missing children, to the Governor and the General Assembly of Virginia.  Richmond:  Commonwealth of Virginia, 1985.  57p.

Report of the Virginia Commission on Youth study of truants and runaways to the Governor and the General Assembly of Virginia.  Richmond:  Commonwealth of Virginia, 1999. 

Report of the Working Party on Unsupervised Young People (street kids).  Wellington, N.Z.:  Sub-committee on Young Offenders, 1983.  171p.

Report to the governor from Maryland Task Force on Missing and Exploited Children.  Annapolis:  Dept. of Health and Mental Hygiene, Juvenile Services Administration, 1984.  100p.

Report to the Illinois General Assembly on missing young adults.  Prepared by Illinois Criminal Justice Information Authority and Illinois Department of Law Enforcement.  Chicago, IL:  The Authority, 1984.  83p.

Rhodes, Lodis.  Runaways in Texas:  a statistical estimate, 1985.  Prepared for the Texas Department of Human Resources.  Austin:  Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs, The University of Texas at Austin, 1985.  33p.

Runaway and otherwise homeless youth:  annual report on the Runaway Youth Act.  Department of Health, Education, and Welfare [i.e. Department of Health and Human Services], Office of Human Development Services, Administration for Children, Youth, and Families, Youth Development Bureau.  Washington, DC:  The Bureau, 1980-present.  Annual.

Runaway youth and resulting prostitution and drugs:  senate hearing, April 13, 1984.   California Legislature, Senate Select Committee on Children and Youth.  Sacramento, CA:  Joint Publications Office, 1984.  118p.

Runaway youth. Hearings, Ninety-second Congress, first session, pursuant to S. Res. 32, section 12 ... Legislative hearings on S. 2829 ... January 13, 14, 1972.  Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee to Investigate Juvenile Delinquency.  Washington:  GPO, 1972.  238p.

Selected state legislation:  a guide for effective state laws to protect children / National Center for Missing & Exploited Children.  Washington, DC:  The National Center for Missing & Exploited Children, 1985.  54p. 

State action plan.  New Jersey Commission on Missing Persons.  Trenton:  The Commission.  Annual.

Street kids--homeless and runaway youth:  hearing before the Subcommittee on Children, Family, Drugs and Alcoholism of the Committee on Labor and Human Resources, United States Senate, One Hundred First Congress, second session, on examining the impact of homelessness and dislocation on young people in America, February 7, 1990.  Washington:  GPO, 1990.  129p.

Study of kidnapped children in the City of Bombay.  Bombay:  Children's Aid Society, Research Dept., 1973.  103p.  Sponsored by the Central Bureau of Correctional Services, Department of Social Welfare, Government of India.