Calling child protectives services is a form of community policing that should be used appropriately: Time to engage mandatory reporters as to the harmful effects of unnecessary reports

Raz, Mical

doi:10.1016/j.childyouth.2020.104817

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“…The empirical findings provide insight into a major challenge for child welfare systems: the deluge of reports that do not necessarily call for a child protection response (Raz 2020). "Light touch" or lower-level interventions represent important forms of social control, even without pulling people deeper into punitive systems (Herring 2019;Kohler-Hausmann 2013).…”

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“…Addressing and preventing child maltreatment is an issue of significant public concern (Gilbert et al 2009). Guidance and stricter screening around situations requiring CPS intervention, combined with additional support for professionals seeking assistance for families, could reduce reports ill-suited for a child protection response (Raz 2020). Moreover, U.S. responses to child maltreatment primarily focus on individual parents' behaviors rather than the systemic injustices creating the conditions for maltreatment.…”

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Getting Eyes in the Home: Child Protective Services Investigations and State Surveillance of Family Life

2020

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Each year, U.S. child protection authorities investigate millions of families, disproportionately poor families and families of color. These investigations involve multiple home visits to collect information across numerous personal domains. How does the state gain such widespread entrée into the intimate, domestic lives of marginalized families? Predominant theories of surveillance offer little insight into this process and its implications. Analyzing observations of child maltreatment investigations in Connecticut and interviews with professionals reporting maltreatment, state investigators, and investigated mothers, this article argues that coupling assistance with coercive authority—a hallmark of contemporary poverty governance—generates an expansive surveillance of U.S. families by attracting referrals from adjacent systems. Educational, medical, and other professionals invite investigations of families far beyond those ultimately deemed maltreating, with the hope that child protection authorities’ dual therapeutic and coercive capacities can rehabilitate families, especially marginalized families. Yet even when investigations close, this arrangement, in which service systems channel families to an entity with coercive power, fosters apprehension among families and thwarts their institutional engagement. These findings demonstrate how, in an era of welfare retrenchment, rehabilitative poverty governance renders marginalized populations hyper-visible to the state in ways that may reinforce inequality and marginality.

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Getting Eyes in the Home: Child Protective Services Investigations and State Surveillance of Family Life

2020

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“…In the United States, laws specific to mandatory reporting of child abuse and neglect have been in existence for over 50 years [7]. Mandatory reporting laws were enacted in response to the seminal article, The Battered-child Syndrome, written by Dr. C. Henry Kempe and colleagues in 1962 [7][8][9][10]. In the article, Kempe and colleagues posited that this clinical condition was often not recognized or when it was recognized, it may have been handled inadequately if a physician was hesitant to notify the proper authorities [10].…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Within three years of the publication of this article, all 50 states adopted a mandatory reporting law [9,11,12]. This occurred after the Children's Bureau of the United States Department of Health, Education and Welfare provided model mandatory reporting statutes for individual states to adopt as they worked to establish legal requirements for reporting child abuse and neglect [8]. The aspirations of these laws were early identification and protection for victims of abuse [13].…”

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Structures of Oppression in the U.S. Child Welfare System: Reflections on Administrative Barriers to Equity

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In the United States, child welfare reform efforts have dominated three decades of landscape. With glimmers of systemic promise and innumerable individual success stories, data suggest insufficient improvements, resulting in calls for transformation and even abolition. In this article, the authors illustrate structures of oppression that bolster the system’s tentacles, in regulating family life, contributing to racial disparities, reinforcing economic hardships, and supporting policies of family separation. Some of the structures take the form of practices, policies, laws or regulations. Individually and collectively, these structures may serve to oppress and harm those that the child welfare system intends to help. In this article, we include mandated reporting, substantiation decisions, central registries, decision-making processes, background checks, ongoing service delivery frameworks, conservative interpretations of confidentiality statutes, and how immigration status interplays with child welfare. Each of these structures could warrant an individual article, delving into the inner workings of how each oppresses families and the professionals who work with them. We also recognize that there are other structures of oppression that this article will not address. We encourage other scholars to not only continue the identification of oppressive structures, but to also work collaboratively, to generate solutions that dismantle these mechanisms that continue to perpetuate harm and unnecessary family separation.

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“…Further, there is little understanding on the intersectionality of age, race, gender, culture, and sexual orientation for children and caregivers in terms of screening, assessment, and referral for CAN. Research has documented an over-reporting of children of color to CPS (Cort et al, 2010; Maguire-Jack, Font, & Dillard, 2020; Raz, 2020). It is imperative for research to be used by child-serving professionals to make the best decisions informed by science.…”

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Transforming the paradigm of child welfare

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As a founder of the field of applied developmental psychology, Dr Edward Zigler promoted public policy that translated scientific knowledge into real-world programs to improve the outcomes of high-risk children and families. Many researchers, practitioners, and public policy proponents have sought to carry on his legacy through integration of empirical research, evidence-based prevention and intervention, and advocacy to address a range of challenges facing families with young children. To advance the field of child maltreatment, a multidisciplinary team of investigators from the Universities of Rochester and Minnesota partnered with the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development to create the Translational Research that Adapts New Science FOR Maltreatment Prevention Center (Transform). Building on state-of-the-art research methodologies and clinical practices, Transform leverages theoretically grounded research and evidence-based interventions to optimize outcomes for individuals across the life span who have experienced, or may be at risk for, maltreatment. Inspired by the work of Dr Zigler, Transform is committed to bridging science and real-world practice. Therefore, in addition to creating new science, Transform's Community Engagement Core provides translational science to a broad audience of investigators, child-serving professionals, and parental and governmental stakeholders. This article describes Transform's purpose, theoretical framework, current activities, and future directions.

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Calling child protectives services is a form of community policing that should be used appropriately: Time to engage mandatory reporters as to the harmful effects of unnecessary reports

Cited by 19 publications

References 24 publications

Getting Eyes in the Home: Child Protective Services Investigations and State Surveillance of Family Life

Getting Eyes in the Home: Child Protective Services Investigations and State Surveillance of Family Life

Structures of Oppression in the U.S. Child Welfare System: Reflections on Administrative Barriers to Equity

Transforming the paradigm of child welfare

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