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Title: Child Sexual Abuse: Removals by Child Generation and Ethnicity, Findings from Texas

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Publication Year: 2007

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Abstract: Child sexual abuse rates have fallen dramatically in the United States since the early 1990s. Between 1992 and 2000, substantiated sexual abuse reports dropped from 150,000 to 89,500 cases, a decline of 40 percent(Finkelhor and Jones 2004). Much of this decline may be attributable to a declining pool of older, previously unreported cases of child abuse that came to light in the late 1980s with rising public awareness but were largely investigated by the mid-1990s. However, similar declines in self-reported sexual abuse provide evidence that at least a portion of the change represents a real decline in child sexual abuse, rather than increased caution on the part of Child Protective Services (CPS) agencies that investigate and substantiate abuse allegations. Despite this encouraging national trend inchild sexual abuse, administrative data from Texas suggestthat the share of Latin American immigrant children in out-of-home care who were removed for sexual abuse isthree times as high as the share of children of nativesremoved for sexual abuse.

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Authors: Capps, Randy; Vericker, Tracy; Kuehn, Daniel

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Publication Number: 2

Institution: The Urban Institute

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Data Collections: IPUMS USA

Topics: Crime and Deviance, Race and Ethnicity

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