Federal · Title 34 — Crime Control and Law Enforcement

34 U.S.C. § 12392: Enforcement of statutory rape laws

Civil

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This statute expresses Senate policy that states should enforce statutory rape laws and directs the Attorney General to ensure the Department of Justice addresses statutory rape prevention and prosecution.

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It is the sense of the Senate that States and local jurisdictions should aggressively enforce statutory rape laws. studies the linkage between statutory rape and teenage pregnancy, particularly by predatory older men committing repeat offenses; and educates State and local criminal law enforcement officials on the prevention and prosecution of statutory rape, focusing in particular on the commission of statutory rape by predatory older men committing repeat offenses, and any links to teenage pregnancy. The Attorney General shall ensure that the Department of Justice’s Violence Against Women initiative addresses the issue of statutory rape, particularly the commission of statutory rape by predatory older men committing repeat offenses.

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