Re: Child fatalities

[MichaelD55@xxxxxxx]

Lynne

You will find something from the national archives on child abuse/negelct and 
also in PubMed and the formal literature. I particularly suggest our web page 
for the ICAN National Center on Child Fatality Review at ican-ncfr.org. Look 
at the data by state mixing the various data sets and try the links to 
states. Reports from states will give you varied collection of detail. Many 
include race, age, cause and manner of death, relationship to perpetrator. 
Poverty may be missed. Education of the parent is coded on birth certificates 
and a few teams collect the certificate. I can't remember any noting moms 
education which some studies find to correlate with child development.

Let me know if you want more. We will be collecting more local studies in the 
next year or so and will link to them or post them.

NCANDS notes cases with previous CPS. PCA America has their annual study. You 
will need to define your terms and decide if you want to believe and use one 
system (e.g., CPS or vital stats). What do you wan to learn?

Michael (Durfee)
ican-ncfr 
Los Angeles

In a message dated 2/6/01 10:15:24 AM, lkwilson@titan.vcu.edu writes:

<< I am involved in a research project looking at child fatalities due to

maltreatment.  We are interested in the characteristics of the child,

families, and perpetrators of the maltreatment, as well as demographic

varaibles including SES, neighborhood, race. and education.  


Please could you share information in any of these areas.


Thank you,


Lynne Kendal-Wilson

Doctoral Student

School of Social Work

Virginia Commonwealth University