Youth
The IACP has provided law enforcement leaders and practitioners innovative approaches and best practices for engaging with, and responding to, children and youth. This includes implementing positive police/youth engagement strategies, effective juvenile interview and interrogation practices, addressing school safety, enhancing law enforcement’s role with children exposed to violence, and combating child sex trafficking.
Enhancing Law Enforcement Response to Children Exposed to Violence Toolkit
This Toolkit provides practical tools and resources to assist law enforcement agencies in building or enhancing effective operational responses to children exposed to violence (with…
Reducing Risks: An Executive's Guide to Effective Juvenile Interview and Interrogation
The juvenile interview and interrogation landscape is undergoing an unprecedented upheaval. Over the past decade, numerous studies have demonstrated that juveniles are particularly likely to…
Policy Center Resources
See AllChild Abuse
Child abuse and neglect have been traditionally regarded as the principal responsibility of child protective services and social welfare agencies. However, research has demonstrated that a...
Safeguarding Children of Arrested Parents
The arrest of a parent can have a significant impact on a child, whether or not the child is present at the time of the...
Interviewing and Interrogating Juveniles
The U.S. Supreme Court has recognized the emotional and developmental differences between adults and juveniles and the implications that this has on the conduct of...
Resources
EXPIRED Teenage Illicit Steroid Use
Teenage Illicit Steroid Use Submitted by: Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs Committee NDD.004.a08 WHEREAS, steroids are schedule III controlled substances, requiring a prescription to be used…
EXPIRED Noting the Link Between Increased Teen Marijuana Use, Increased Driving Death Statistics and Drug Tr
Adopted at the 119th Annual Conference San Diego, CA October 3, 2012 Noting the Link Between Increased Teen Marijuana Use, Increased Driving Death Statistics and…
EXPIRED Drug Endangered Children Protection Program
WHEREAS, drug endangered children are youth who are subjected to illegal drugs or toxic chemicals in the home, infants exposed to illegal drugs; and/or children…
EXPIRED Support for Creating a Community Dialogue to Discuss Nonpunitive Student Drug Testing for Early Intervention
Support for Creating a Community Dialogue to Discuss Nonpunitive Student Drug Testing for Early Intervention NDD.029.a07 WHEREAS, the identification at an early stage of school…
