JUST 317 Final Exam Spring 2025 Family Abductions

Vocabulary flashcards about JUST 317 Final Exam Spring 2025 Family Abductions

Clean hands doctrine

Parents/caretakers who abduct the child and flee to other states are barred from seeking a custody order in that new state

Parental Kidnapping Prevention Act

Addressed the issues of multiplicity of criteria for clean hands doctrine; gave clearer priority to childs home state, lessened the importance of significant connection criteria, allowed for an extension of Federal Fugitive Felon Act to include parental abductions, allowed left behind parents access to resources like Federal Parent Locator Service

Runaway

A child who leaves without permission and stays elsewhere overnight or leaves with permission and chooses to not come back

Throwaway

A child told to leave and not provided adequate space to stay by the parent

Missing involuntary child

A child whose whereabouts are unknown to the caregiver causing them to contact law enforcement/missing children agency to locate the missing child or become alarmed for at least an hour, the child must have been trying to get home/make contact but couldn’t (lost, stranded, injured) or was too young to find their way home

Missing benign child

A child whose caretaker to become alarmed for an hour, try to locate the child, and contact police about the episode for any reason aside from the other reasons

Terminology to describe statutory relationships victims

Voluntary, consensual, non-forcible, and cross generational

Self grooming

The way in which the child sexual offender denies the behavior as abusive or rationalizes and excuses it

Grooming the environment and significant others

They usually do so by occupying a position of trust. Sometimes this form of grooming is sufficiently effective that parents and other caregivers place so much faith in the character of the offender that if a child does reveal that he or she has been abused, then the adults may not believe the revelation

Grooming the child

Both psychological and physical dimensions

Finkelhor’s 4 factor model of offending for child sexual abuse

Different steps the offender takes to get to the point of committing the crime; motivation to abuse, overcoming internal inhibitions to abuse, overcoming external factors, overcoming child's resistance

PROTECT Act

Outlaws “virtual” child porn, prohibits “misleading” domain names on internet, requires internet availability to info about registered sex offenders, inclusion of cp watchers in sex offender registry, establishes program to obtain criminal history background check for volunteer orgs, authorized wiretapping and more in cases related to child abuse/kidnapping, provides transitional housing assistance grants for child victims of DV, stalking, or assault, amber alerts

Typology of juvenile prostitutes described in the Juvenile Prostitution as Child Maltreatment article

Third party exploiters, solo juvenile prostitutes, and conventional child sex abuse with payment