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
Developing an Anti-Bullying Program: Increasing Safety, Reducing Violence
Juvenile Justice Promising Practice Brief from May 2006. This publication is one in a series of briefs written for law enforcement leaders to facilitate the…
Effective Youth Diversion Strategies for Law Enforcement
Effective Youth Diversion Strategies for Law Enforcement On January 23rd, 2014, the IACP held a webinar intended to educate law enforcement and juvenile justice practitioners…
Juvenile Interview and Interrogation
The juvenile interview and interrogation landscape has undergone an unprecedented upheaval in the last decade as numerous studies have demonstrated that juveniles are particularly likely…
Practices in Modern Policing: Police-Youth Engagement
This guide demonstrates how positive police and youth engagement can increase public safety; reduce crime, victimization, and recidivism; and foster trust between young people and…
