This information memorandum of the Wisconsin Legislative Council describes 1987 Wisconsin Act 332, relating to crimes and civil offenses against children and providing penalties. An introduction describes how Act 332 will reorganize existing crimes against children into a separate chapter of the Criminal Code and will revise crimes and offenses against children contained in statutes outside the Criminal Code. Ten principal features of Act 322 are listed which relate to: (1) clarifying and strengthening the crime of physical child abuse; (2) recognizing the crime of causing mental harm; (3) clarifying child victim age categories in the sexual assault statute; (4) prohibiting possession of child pornography; (5) clarifying statutes relating to incest, child enticement, and sex organ exposure; (6) revising the crime of exposing a child to harmful material; (7) clarifying statutes relating to child abandonment, abduction, custody interference, and contributing to the delinquency or neglect of a child; (8) creating new crimes relating to possession of dangerous weapons on school premises and delivering controlled substances near school grounds; (9) creating an extended statute of limitations for certain crimes; and (10) decriminalizing several regulatory offenses to promote enforcement. Part I of the memorandum gives the background of the legislation. Part II describes major provisions of Act 332. The penalty classification system in the Criminal Code is appended. (NB)