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42 U.S. Code § 9511. Grants for sex offense prevention and control
(a) Authority of National Center for the Prevention and Control of Sex Offenses; functionsThe Secretary, acting through the National Center for the Prevention and Control of Sex Offenses (hereafter in this section referred to as the “Center”), may, directly or by grant, carry out the following:
(1) A continuing study of sex offenses, including a study and investigation of—
(A)
the effectiveness of existing Federal, State, and local laws dealing with sex offenses;
(B)
the relationship, if any, between traditional legal and social attitudes toward sexual roles, sex offenses, and the formulation of laws dealing with rape;
(C)
the treatment of the victims of sex offenses by law enforcement agencies, hospitals or other medical institutions, prosecutors, and the courts;
(D) the causes of sex offenses, identifying to the degree possible—
(i)
social conditions which encourage sexual attacks, and
(ii)
the motives of offenders, and
(E)
the impact of a sex offense on the victim and family of the victim;
(F)
sexual assaults in correctional institutions;
(G)
the estimated actual incidence of forcible sex offenses as compared to the reported incidence of forcible sex offenses and the reasons for any difference between the two; and
(H)
the effectiveness of existing private and local and State government educational, counseling, and other programs designed to prevent and control sex offenses.