Title Iv Missing Children S Assistance Act

Summarizes the results of the "Nat. Study of Law Enforcement Policies and Practices Regarding Missing Children." There were 3 main components: a mail survey of a national sample of police depts. to determine how depts. respond to missing children cases; 2-day visits to 30 police depts. to gather detailed qualitative info. about responses to missing children cases; and interviews in 6 major metro areas with parents who reported a missing child to the police, and with children who had returned home after a missing incident. Focuses the results of the parent interviews, although it integrates findings from the mail survey and police dept. visits as well. 25 charts and tables.

Contains 1,412 assistance programs administered by 57 Federal agencies in agriculture, crime control, education, employment and training, health and human services, housing and homeownership, and science and technology. Chapters: how to use the catalog; agency summary; agency programs; alpha. index of programs; applicant eligibility; deadlines index; functional index; subject index; deleted and added programs; crosswalk of changes to program numbers and titles; program descriptions: programs requiring executive order 12372 review; authorization appendix; agency addresses; sources of additional info.; and developing and writing grant proposals.

This new anthology of readings in deviance provides the missing link between classroom presentation and the theoretical sociology presented in textbooks. Presented within an interactionist/social constructionist framework, the book's 39 readings represent a variety of richly descriptive, qualitative studies of deviant subcultures, deviant behavior, and the management of deviant identities. Using the subjects' own voices, these ethnographic studies provide vivid images, and, in conjunction with the six part introductions, help the student see the connection between the characteristics of individual experience and the nature of social institutions and social power.