Title 34 — Crime Control and Law Enforcement
Part E · Chapter 121 — Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement
§ 12392. Enforcement of statutory rape laws
Statutory text
Sense of Senate
It is the sense of the Senate that States and local jurisdictions should aggressively enforce statutory rape laws.
Justice Department program on statutory rape
Not later than , the Attorney General shall establish and implement a program that—
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.
Violence against women initiative
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.
Legislative history
Reconstructed from this section’s Code source credit and amendment notes, resolved against the local Statutes at Large. Editorial notes are evidence, not the law that made the change.
Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996
Pub. L. 104–193 title IX § 906 · 110 Stat. 2105
Enacted · 34 U.S.C. § 12392
(Pub. L. 104–193, title IX, § 906, Aug. 22, 1996, 110 Stat. 2349.)
Source evidence
Code source credit
(Pub. L. 104–193, title IX, § 906, Aug. 22, 1996, 110 Stat. 2349.)Enacted provision · exact public law section
SEC. 906. SENSE OF THE SENATE REGARDING ENFORCEMENT OF STATUTORY RAPE LAWS. (a) Sense of the Senate.— It is the sense of the Senate that States and local jurisdictions should aggressively enforce statutory rape laws. (b) Justice Department Program On Statutory Rape.— Not Establishment, later than January 1, 1997, the Attorney General shall establish and implement a program that— (1) studies the linkage between statutory rape and teenage pregnancy, particularly by predatory older men committing repeat offenses; and (2) 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. (c) violence Against Women Initiative.— 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.
1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision
Editorial Notes
Codification
Section was formerly classified to section 14016 of Title 42, The Public Health and Welfare, prior to editorial reclassification and renumbering as this section.
Section was enacted as part of the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996, and not as part of the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994 which enacted this chapter.