NCJ Number
152804
Date Published
1994
Length
10 pages
Annotation
This document summarizes State and territorial legislation defining specific crimes involving the emotional abuse of children.
Abstract
The summaries are designed to provide a reference for persons researching criminal child abuse legislation; they present an abridged and potentially incomplete picture of charging statutes in various States and is intended only as an initial reference. The entries do not include sentencing information for every statute, although this information is occasionally included in the text of statutes annotated here. Only statutes identifying emotional abuse of children as a crime are included, while those pertaining to physical or sexual abuse have been omitted. Definitions are included only when referred to in the statute and needed for understanding it. Defenses to the crime of emotional abuse are not included here.