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Adler & Adler
๏ What are official statistics? ๏ Statistics: numerical data ๏ Official: gathered by government officials or people receiving government money in the course of doing performing normal jobs ๏ Uniform Crime Reports (UCRs) Docsity.com ๏ Strengths ๏ Fast: Pre-collected ๏ Cheap ๏ Longitudinal: over history ๏ Breadth: no sampling ๏ Weaknesses ๏ Validity ๏ Change/Absent categories ๏ Data gathering ๏ Self interpretation Docsity.com ๏ Survey Research โ one of the most popular ๏ Participant-Observation Field Research Docsity.com ๏ Questionnaire ๏ Sampling ๏ Probability ๏ Convenience ๏ Snowball ๏ Mode of Administration ๏ Coding and Analysis Docsity.com Child Abuse Reporting
Besharov
w/Laumann-Billings
Part 3: Ch. 12 Docsity.com ๏ All states have passed laws that require designated professionals to report specified types of child maltreatment ๏ Over the years, both the range of designated professionals and the scope of reportable conditions have steadily expanded Part 3: Ch. 12 Docsity.com ๏ Increase in reporting accompanied by a substantial expansion of prevention and treatment programs ๏ Increase in reporting accompanied by a substantial expansion of prevention and treatment programs ๏ Estimated that as a result, child abuse and neglect deaths have fallen from 3000-5000 per year to about 1000 annually Part 3: Ch. 12 Docsity.com Part 3: Ch. 12 Docsity.com ๏ 56% or about 500,000 abused & neglected cases unreported (1986) ๏ 2,000 with observable signs (bruises, scrapes) that required hospitalization ๏ 100,000 with moderate signs of abuse ๏ 30,000 of those sexually abused Part 3: Ch. 12 Docsity.com ๏ Nationwide 60 to 65 percent of all reports closed after finding of unfounded ๏ Each year about 700,000 families are needlessly put through investigations of unfounded reports, a massive violation of parental rights ๏ So many unfounded reports waste valuable resources of child protection agencies ๏ This explains why 25 to 50 percent of child abuse deaths involve children previously known to authorities since caseworkers are overwhelmed and desensitized Unsubstantiated Reports Part 3: Ch. 12 Docsity.com ๏ What reporting laws govern those who work or serve children in most, if not all, states? ๏ What is the difference between substantiated and unsubstantiated case of child abuse? Part 3: Ch. 12 Docsity.com
