Policies can be powerful tools for prevention given their potential to affect conditions that can
improve population-level health. Given the dearth of empirical research on policies' impacts …

State-level child welfare policies and practices affect what can be referred, investigated, and
substantiated as child maltreatment, and these institutional factors vary across states and …

Building on knowledge about community-level characteristics associated with child
maltreatment, this study identifies new ways that county-level variation in child maltreatment …

Child maltreatment report rates vary widely among states and counties. A portion of the
variation likely reflects varying community-level risk and protective factors, but the variation …

Child maltreatment calls for a broad range of preventative policies and practices, but limited
governmental funding and leadership has been devoted to the problem. Effective strategies …

At least 1.25 million children in the United States experienced child maltreatment in 2005-
2006 (Sedlak et al., 2010). Victims of child maltreatment are at high risk for a host of adverse …

Specific, accurate understanding of the extent of maltreatment in American society, the
nature of the maltreatment that occurs, and the consequences it has for children are crucial …

Objectives. To estimate the lifetime prevalence of official investigations for child
maltreatment among children in the United States. Methods. We used the National Child …

OBJECTIVES: To present new estimates of the average lifetime costs per child maltreatment
victim and aggregate lifetime costs for all new child maltreatment cases incurred in 2008 …

To evaluate the association between economic indicators (unemployment and mortgage
foreclosure rates) and volume of investigated and substantiated cases of child maltreatment …