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§12462 Purpose

Title 34 › Subtitle I — Comprehensive Acts › CHAPTER 121 — VIOLENT CRIME CONTROL AND LAW ENFORCEMENT › SUBCHAPTER III — VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN › Part K — Strengthening America’s Families by Preventing Violence Against Women and Children › § 12462

Last updated Aug 21, 2026|Official source

Summary

Require efforts to stop violence against women, children, and youth, expand the services that help them, and reduce harm to children who see or experience violence so it does not pass from one generation to the next. Support education and services for children in at‑risk families so they do not become victims or people who hurt others in domestic, dating, sexual, or stalking situations, help young people build respectful, nonviolent relationships, and encourage teamwork among community groups, government, health and mental‑health providers, and organizations that help victims.

Title 34, §12462

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The purpose of this part is to—

(1)prevent crimes involving violence against women, children, and youth;

(2)increase the resources and services available to prevent violence against women, children, and youth;

(3)reduce the impact of exposure to violence in the lives of children and youth so that the intergenerational cycle of violence is interrupted;

(4)develop and implement education and services programs to prevent children in vulnerable families from becoming victims or perpetrators of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, or stalking;

(5)promote programs to ensure that children and youth receive the assistance they need to end the cycle of violence and develop mutually respectful, nonviolent relationships; and

(6)encourage collaboration among community-based organizations and governmental agencies serving children and youth, providers of health and mental health services and providers of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking victim services to prevent violence against women and children.

Editorial Notes

Codification Section was formerly classified to section 14043d–1 of Title 42, The Public Health and Welfare, prior to editorial reclassification and renumbering as this section.

§12462 Purpose

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