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Title: Family Surveillance: Police and the Reporting of Child Abuse and Neglect

Citation Type: Journal Article

Publication Year: 2019

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Abstract: 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 result in the initiation of a child welfare investigation. Because police contact is not randomly or equitably distributed across populations, policing has likely spillover consequences on racial inequities in child welfare outcomes. This study shows that police file more reports of child abuse and neglect in counties with high arrest rates, and that policing helps explain high rates of maltreatment investigations of American Indian–Alaska Native children and families. The spatial and social distribution of policing affects which children and families experience unnecessary child protection interventions and which children who are victims of maltreatment go unnoticed.

Url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7758/rsf.2019.5.1.03#metadata_info_tab_contents

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Authors: Edwards, Frank

Periodical (Full): The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences

Issue: 1

Volume: 5

Pages: 50-70

Data Collections: IPUMS USA

Topics: Crime and Deviance, Family and Marriage, Other

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