This document was prepared to assist the Wisconsin Legislative Council's Special Committee on Crimes Against Children in its study of current laws relating to crimes against children. It provides the background of the origin of the study and describes the characteristics of the Criminal Code, upon which much of the committee review will center. The section on the study's background explains that the committee was created to examine state laws relating to crimes against children to evaluate whether it would be advisable to reorganize those laws into a separate chapter of the statues and to review those laws to address any major policy issues relating to crimes against children. Included in this section are descriptions of legislation enacted by the 1981, 1983, and 1985 Wisconsin legislatures. The report concludes that offenses involving a child as the victim are scattered throughout the statutes. Statutes both inside and outside of the Criminal Code are briefly reviewed and the Children's Code is explained. (NB)