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§12392 Enforcement of statutory rape laws

Title 34 › Subtitle Subtitle I— - Comprehensive Acts › Chapter CHAPTER 121— - VIOLENT CRIME CONTROL AND LAW ENFORCEMENT › Subchapter SUBCHAPTER III— - VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN › Part Part E— - Violence Against Women Act Improvements › § 12392

Last updated Apr 6, 2026|Official source

Summary

By January 1, 1997, the Attorney General must start a program to study links between statutory rape and teen pregnancy and to train state and local law enforcement on preventing and prosecuting it, focusing on predatory older repeat offenders. The Senate urges enforcement, and the Justice Department’s Violence Against Women program must address statutory rape.

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Title 34, §12392

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(a)It is the sense of the Senate that States and local jurisdictions should aggressively enforce statutory rape laws.

(b)Not later than January 1, 1997, the Attorney General shall establish and implement a program that—

(1)studies the linkage between statutory rape and teenage pregnancy, particularly by predatory older men committing repeat offenses; and

(2)educates State and local criminal law enforcement officials on the prevention and prosecution of statutory rape, focusing in particular on the commission of statutory rape by predatory older men committing repeat offenses, and any links to teenage pregnancy.

(c)The Attorney General shall ensure that the Department of Justice’s Violence Against Women initiative addresses the issue of statutory rape, particularly the commission of statutory rape by predatory older men committing repeat offenses.

Legislative History

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Editorial Notes

Codification Section was formerly classified to section 14016 of Title 42, The Public Health and Welfare, prior to editorial reclassification and renumbering as this section. Section was enacted as part of the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996, and not as part of the Violent Crime Control and Law

Enforcement

Act of 1994 which enacted this chapter.

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Citation

34 U.S.C. § 12392

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Apr 6, 2026

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