---
kind: "unit"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
key: "ch136"
level: "chapter"
label: "Chapter 136"
heading: "Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement"
release: "119-102"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/ch136"
sections_count: 235
---

# Chapter 136 — Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement

Title 42 — The Public Health and Welfare

## Contents

- [Subchapter I — Prisons](/usc/42/ch136-schI.md)
- [Subchapter II — Crime Prevention](/usc/42/ch136-schII.md)
- [Subchapter III — Violence Against Women](/usc/42/ch136-schIII.md)
- [Subchapter IV — Drug Control](/usc/42/ch136-schIV.md)
- [Subchapter V — Criminal Street Gangs](/usc/42/ch136-schV.md)
- [Subchapter VI — Crimes Against Children](/usc/42/ch136-schVI.md)
- [Subchapter VII — Rural Crime](/usc/42/ch136-schVII.md)
- [Subchapter VIII — Police Corps and Law Enforcement Officers Training and Education](/usc/42/ch136-schVIII.md)
- [Subchapter IX — State and Local Law Enforcement](/usc/42/ch136-schIX.md)
- [Subchapter X — Motor Vehicle Theft Prevention](/usc/42/ch136-schX.md)
- [Subchapter XI — Protections for the Elderly](/usc/42/ch136-schXI.md)
- [Subchapter XII — Presidential Summit on Violence and National Commission on Crime Prevention and Control](/usc/42/ch136-schXII.md)
- [Subchapter XIII — Violent Crime Reduction Trust Fund](/usc/42/ch136-schXIII.md)
- [Subchapter XIV — Miscellaneous](/usc/42/ch136-schXIV.md)