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The National Juvenile Prostitution Study (JPS) was conducted by the Crimes against Children Research Center located at the University of New Hampshire. JPS was fully funded through grants from the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, Department of Justice. This study collected information from a national sample of law enforcement agencies about the prevalence of arrests for and characteristics of juvenile prostitution cases in the criminal justice system during the year 2005. The goal of this methodology was 1) to design a representative national sample of law enforcement agencies that would give us an overall picture of these crimes in the United States, 2) to understand how these cases emerged and were handled in a diverse group of agencies, and 3) to get detailed data about the characteristics of these crimes from wellinformed, reliable sources. A three‐phase process was used to collect data from a national sample of local, county, state, and federal law enforcement agencies. |
