Child maltreatment as a community problem

Garbarino, James; Kostelny, Kathleen

doi:10.1016/0145-2134(92)90062-v

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“…This is consistent with other studies that have found that indicators of neighborhood disruption, such as high rates of mobility, can vary even within samples of the very poor and are related to maltreatment (Garbarino & Kostelny, 1992;McCloskey & Bailey, 2000). As previously noted, limited variability may have restricted our ability to show stronger effects.…”

Section: Community Factorssupporting

confidence: 79%

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Rereporting of child maltreatment: Does participation in other public sector services moderate the likelihood of a second maltreatment report?

Drake

Jonson‐Reid

Sapokaite

2006

Child Abuse & Neglect

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Objective-This study uses administrative data to track the first re-reports of maltreatment in a low-income, urban child welfare population (n = 4,957) while controlling for other public service involvement. Service system involvement is explored across the following sectors: Child Welfare, Income Maintenance, Special Education, Juvenile Court, and various forms of Medicaidreimbursed medical or mental health care. This study builds knowledge by adding the services dimension to an ecological framework for analyses and by following recurrence for a longer period of time than prior investigations (7.5 years).Method-We model the re-reporting of a child for maltreatment as a function of child, caregiver, service, and neighborhood characteristics using data from birth records, child welfare, income maintenance, Medicaid, adult corrections, juvenile court, special education, law enforcement, and census sources. Bivariate and multivariate analyses are presented, the latter using Cox regression with a robust sandwich covariance matrix estimate to account for the intra-cluster dependence within tracts.Results-Key results across bivariate and multivariate analyses included a lower rate of rereporting among children with parents who were high school graduates and/or permanently exited from the first spell on AFDC (p <.0001); and for children in families that received less intensive in-home services compared to those not receiving services, receiving intensive in-home, or foster care services (p <.0001). Higher rates of re-reporting were found for children with Medicaid mental health/substance abuse treatment records (p <.0001) and special education eligibility for emotional disturbance (p <.005).Conclusions-Caretaker characteristics and non-child welfare service use patterns had a strong association with the likelihood of a child being re-reported to the child welfare agency and should be more heavily attended to by child welfare workers. High rates of service sector overlap suggest that inter-agency ties and cooperation should be strengthened. The lower risk associated with less intensive in-home services compared to un-served cases may indicate under-identification of inhome service eligibility following a first report of maltreatment.

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Section: Community Factorssupporting

confidence: 79%

“…These community indicators were chosen because of their theoretical correspondence to social cohesion (Garbarino & Kostelny, 1992;McCloskey & Bailey, 2000). The police calls variable was not available for all areas due to a small number of police jurisdictions that did not archive these data.…”

Section: Variablesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Rereporting of child maltreatment: Does participation in other public sector services moderate the likelihood of a second maltreatment report?

Drake

Jonson‐Reid

Sapokaite

2006

Child Abuse & Neglect

119

112

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“…Abuse correlates with family mobility and stability of the neighborhood Garbarino and Kostelny [20] 77 communities in the Chicago area; socioeconomically similar…”

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The Epidemiology of Nonaccidental Trauma in Children

Mulpuri

Slobogean

Tredwell

2011

Clinical Orthopaedics &Amp; Related Research

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Background Abuse of children is abhorrent in Western society and, yet, is not uncommon. Nonaccidental trauma (NAT) is the result of a complex sociopathology. Not all of the causative factors of NAT are known, many are incompletely described, not all function in each case, and many are secondary to preexisting pathology in other areas. Questions/purposes We therefore addressed the following questions in this review: (1) Conclusions It is important to consider child, family, and societal factors when confronted with suspicions of child abuse. Our review demonstrates the currently limited information on the true incidence of NAT. To determine a much more accurate incidence of NAT, there needs to be a population-based surveillance program conducted through primary care providers.

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“…Indeed, there exists a close relationship between the quality of family life and a positive social environment (Belsky, 1980(Belsky, , 1993Garbarino, 1977;Garbarino & Kostelny, 1992;Gracia & Musitu, 1997;Simons & Johnson, 1996). In this respect, Garbarino (1977) has suggested that the social isolation of families from potential sources of social support becomes a significant element in the analysis of child abuse.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%