---
kind: "section"
citation: "34 U.S.C. § 10337"
title: "34"
title_heading: "Crime Control and Law Enforcement"
number: "10337"
heading: "Definitions"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/34/10337"
units:
  - "Subtitle I — Comprehensive Acts"
  - "Chapter 101 — Justice System Improvement"
  - "Subchapter XIII — Grants for Closed-Circuit Televising of Testimony of Children Who Are Victims of Abuse"
---

# §10337. Definitions


For purposes of this subchapter—

- (1) the term “child” means an individual under the age of 18 years; and
- (2) the term “abuse” means physical or mental injury, sexual abuse or exploitation, or negligent [treatment](/usc/34/11103.md?p=15) of a [child](#1).

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 90–351, title I, § 1409, as added Pub. L. 101–647, title II, § 241(a)(2), Nov. 29, 1990, 104 Stat. 4813.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Codification

Section was formerly classified to section 3796aa–8 of Title 42, The Public Health and Welfare, prior to editorial reclassification and renumbering as this section.