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Justice Systems Processing of Child Abuse and Neglect Cases in a Local Jurisdiction (County) in the United States, 1993-1994

(7 datasets; 8,768 KB)

Principal Investigator(s): Wells, Susan J.,; Sedlak, Andrea

Summary: The purpose of this study was to provide a comprehensive, case-level examination of the full spectrum of case processing of serious child abuse and neglect cases as they flowed through the justice process, from initial receipt of a report to final disposition in the criminal and/or civil court. This was accomplished by in-depth, detailed tracking, from a single jurisdiction, of both prospective and retrospective samples of serious child abuse cases reported to child protective services an... (view full summary)

Persistent URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR02310.v1

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