The Morgan P. Hardiman Child Abduction

Child abduction

Child abduction or Child theft is the unauthorized removal of a minor from the custody of the child's natural or legally appointed guardians....

 and Serial Murder Investigative Resources Center (CASMIRC) is part of the National Center for the Analysis of Violent Crime

National Center for the Analysis of Violent Crime

In November 1982, following a meeting between members of the Criminal Personality Research Project advisory board and other specialists, the concept of a single ' was put forward. This elite investigative branch was never envisaged as a replacement for traditional crime investigation by local law...

 (NCAVC). CASMIRC was established as part of Public Law

Public law

Public law is a theory of law governing the relationship between individuals and the state. Under this theory, constitutional law, administrative law and criminal law are sub-divisions of public law...

 105-314, the Protection of Children From Sexual Predators

Sexual predator

The term sexual predator is used pejoratively to describe a person seen as obtaining or trying to obtain sexual contact with another person in a metaphorically "predatory" manner. Analogous to how a predator hunts down its prey, so the sexual predator is thought to "hunt" for his or her sex partners...

Act, passed by Congress on October 30, 1998. The legislation creates the center to reduce crime involving child abductions, mysterious disappearances of children, child homicide, and serial murder.

Goals

CASMIRC has been charged with accomplishing the following goals:

• improve the investigation of major violent crimes through the establishment and coordination of CASMIRC with federal, state and local authorities;
• provide, if requested by a federal, state, or local law enforcement agency, on-site consultation and advice;
• establish a centralized repository based upon case data reflecting child abductions, mysterious disappearances of children, child homicides, and serial murder submitted by state and local agencies;
• increase the efficiency of the FBI's NCAVC as an operational entity designed to provide operational support functions to any law enforcement agency confronted with a child abduction, mysterious disappearance of a child, child homicide, or serial murder;
• improve the behaviorally based operational support services provided by the FBI in an attempt to reduce incidences of violent crime;
• identify and prioritize those areas of research necessary to address existing and emerging violent crime problems in the areas of child abductions, mysterious disappearances of a child, child homicide, and serial murder; and,
• provide, in coordination with the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children and the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, appropriate training to federal, state, and local law enforcement in matters regarding child abductions, mysterious disappearances of children, and child homicides.

External links

• National Center for the Analysis of Violent Crime