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§12392 Enforcement of Statutory Rape Laws

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

Last updated Sep 22, 2026|Official source

Summary

The Senate urges states and local areas to strongly enforce laws against statutory rape. By January 1, 1997, the Attorney General must create a program to study links between statutory rape and teenage pregnancy—focusing on older men who prey on teens and repeat offenders—and to train state and local law enforcement. The Justice Department’s Violence Against Women program must also address this issue.

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Title 34, §12392

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(a)Sense of Senate
It is the sense of the Senate that States and local jurisdictions should aggressively enforce statutory rape laws.
(b)Justice Department program on statutory rape
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)Violence against women initiative
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

Title 34, Navy

Last Updated

Sep 22, 2026

Release point: 119-110