Despite sufficient evidence to conclude that maltreatment exposure affects the risk of crime
and delinquency, the magnitude and specificity of effects of child maltreatment on crime and …

Foster care provides round‐the‐clock substitute care for nearly 700,000 US children who
are temporarily or permanently separated from their family of origin each year. Each state …

From the Preface: This manual, Child Protective Services: A Guide for Caseworkers,
examines the roles and responsibilities of child protective services (CPS) workers, who are …

Police are responsible for producing about one-fifth of all reports of child abuse and neglect
investigated by local child welfare agencies, and low-level interactions with police often …

A retrospective examination of 500 child sexual abuse reports to prosecutor's offices
analyzed case progress and predictors of attrition, including details about alleged …

The role of contact with the child welfare system (CWS) in legal socialization is not well
understood. This is particularly true of youth who have contact with both the juvenile justice …

Researchers have shown how punitive state contact shapes the lives of poor Black
individuals but have paid less attention to the role of punitive state contact in the lives of the …

Children's and adolescents' risk of experiencing criminal interpersonal violence is
disturbingly high, but most cases are neither reported to police nor prosecuted. Yet …

The objective of this study was to use logistic regression and examine factors that influence
charging decisions by the police during child maltreatment investigations. An estimated …

Objectives The purpose of the current study was to examine what case characteristics
increased the likelihood of a child maltreatment case being prosecuted, and upon …