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If any parallels can be drawn between criminal prosecution of child abuse
and the prosecution of intimate partner violence (I think there are),
then some of your suspicions are no doubt true. <br><br>
<x-tab> </x-tab>With
regards the charging of domestic violence assaults,
<font face="Arial, Helvetica">Langen and Innes found that one third of
domestic violence cases that were classified as misdemeanors, if
committed by strangers, would have been classified as felonies.
Langen and Innes further found that many of the domestic simple assaults,
classified as misdemeanors, actually involved relatively serious
injuries. Injury to the victim in the misdemeanor cases occurred
almost as frequently as injury in the felony cases classified as rape,
robbery and aggravated assault, and “in terms of actual bodily injury, as
many as half of all incidents of domestic violence that police would
classify as misdemeanors are as serious as or more serious than 90% of
all the violent crimes that police would classify as felonies.”
<br><br>
Patrick A. Langan and Christopher A. Innes,<i> Preventing Domestic
Violence Against Women</i>. (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Department of
Justice, Bureau of Justice Statistics, 1986).<br><br>
</font>I believe there is literature out there on the prosecution of
child sexual abuse - the challenges of relying on child testimony,
etc. There is also quite a bit that has been written about the
decision to charge in rape cases - that the "stand-up" nature
of the victim has a huge influence on the prosecutor's
decision.<br><br>
I think there are many reasons why parents are not charged with
"crimes against children" in the case of child
maltreatment. One reason may be that we have traditionally relied
on child protection systems and therefore family courts to address issues
of child abuse. In the same way that domestic violence for so many
years was considered a "family matter" - child abuse has been
thought of in a similar manner. <br><br>
There has been much progress made towards "criminalizing"
domestic violence - which has in turn required the criminal justice
system to respond to this abuse - there had been significant improvement
in this response but much work remains to be done. <br><br>
I am not sure if you are suggesting this is a direction we want to move
towards in the child protection field. I don't know that it would
be a productive move. I do however think we need more connection
between the criminal and family courts to better respond to child
maltreatment, particularly with regards to child sexual abuse and
domestic violence - in order to better hold sexual offenders and
batterers accountable for their abusive behavior.<br><br>
Take the issue of failure to protect due to domestic violence - if the
mother is being battered by her partner, the state can find for neglect
due to exposure to domestic violence. The mother in many of these
cases is the 'founded perpetrator' due to failure to protect.
Unless the batterer is found to have directly maltreated the child, he
may not be founded for the maltreatment. The state can recommend
batterer treatment, but has little leverage to get the batterer to comply
beyond the threat of losing custody of his children - he can't be sent to
jail for not following through because he has not been criminally
prosecuted. And if the batterer is not the biological father of the
children or legally married to the mother he may not be included in an
treatment plan for the family. See Jeff Edleson's article on the
invisibility of fathers in the child protection system.<br>
<x-tab> </x-tab><br>
<font face="Arial, Helvetica"><b>Edleson, J.L. (1998). Responsible
mothers and invisible men: Child protection in the case of adult
domestic violence. <u>Journal of Interpersonal Violence,
13,2,</u> 294-298.<br><br>
<br>
</b></font>Carolyn Hartley, Ph.D.<br>
Assistant Professor<br>
University of Iowa<br>
School of Social Work<br><br>
At 11:12 AM 10/10/2001 -0400, you wrote:<br>
<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite>Hello:<br><br>
I am interested in research data relating to adults being charged with
crimes against children. I suspect that: 1) adults are often not charged
with crimes that they commit against children; 2) adults are charged with
less severe crimes than they may be if the act were committed against
another adult; 3) parents are rarely charged with crimes against their
children; 4) when charged with crimes against their children, parents are
more often found guilty of less serious offenses than what they are
originally charged with.<br><br>
I am interested to know of any research that addresses these
issues.<br><br>
Frank<br>
Program Manager<br>
Michigan Child Welfare Law Resource Center<br>
611 Church Street, Suite 4C<br>
Ann Arbor, Michigan 48104-3000<br>
P: (734) 998-9191<br>
F: (734) 998-9190<br>
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Jeff Edleson is at the University of Minnesota, School of Social
Work. He directs the Minnesota Center Against Violence and
Abuse. The Center has an excellent web page with information on a
broad range of violence related topics. The web address is:
<a href="http://www.mincava.umn.edu/"; eudora="autourl">http://www.mincava.umn.edu/</a><br>
<br>
You may be able to find a copy of his article, along with a wealth of
other information on this web site. His email address
is: jedleson@umn.edu<br>
<br>
Carolyn Hartley, Ph.D.<br>
University of Iowa<br>
School of Social Work<br>
<br>
At 09:39 PM 10/13/2001 -0700, you wrote:<br>
<blockquote type=cite cite>Does anyone happen to have Jeff Edleson's
email address? I'd like to request a copy of the article and he
isn't in the APA email database.<br>
<br>
Thank you.<br>
<br>
Lyn R. Greenberg, Ph.D.<br>
12401 Wilshire Blvd, Suite 303<br>
Los Angeles, CA 90025<br>
<br>
(310) 399-3684<br>
<br>
(310) 399-7154 fax<br>
<br>
lrgreenberg@earthlink.net<br>
<br>
<br>
At 10:25 AM 10/11/2001 -0500, carolyn hartley wrote:<br>
<blockquote type=cite cite>If any parallels can be drawn between criminal
prosecution of child abuse and the prosecution of intimate partner
violence (I think there are), then some of your suspicions are no doubt
true. <br>
<br>
<x-tab> </x-tab>With
regards the charging of domestic violence assaults, Langen and Innes
found that one third of domestic violence cases that were classified as
misdemeanors, if committed by strangers, would have been classified as
felonies. Langen and Innes further found that many of the domestic
simple assaults, classified as misdemeanors, actually involved relatively
serious injuries. Injury to the victim in the misdemeanor cases
occurred almost as frequently as injury in the felony cases classified as
rape, robbery and aggravated assault, and “in terms of actual bodily
injury, as many as half of all incidents of domestic violence that police
would classify as misdemeanors are as serious as or more serious than 90%
of all the violent crimes that police would classify as felonies.”
<br>
<br>
Patrick A. Langan and Christopher A. Innes,<i> Preventing Domestic
Violence Against Women</i>. (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Department of
Justice, Bureau of Justice Statistics, 1986).<br>
<br>
I believe there is literature out there on the prosecution of child
sexual abuse - the challenges of relying on child testimony,
etc. There is also quite a bit that has been written about the
decision to charge in rape cases - that the "stand-up" nature
of the victim has a huge influence on the prosecutor's decision.<br>
<br>
I think there are many reasons why parents are not charged with
"crimes against children" in the case of child
maltreatment. One reason may be that we have traditionally relied
on child protection systems and therefore family courts to address issues
of child abuse. In the same way that domestic violence for so many
years was considered a "family matter" - child abuse has been
thought of in a similar manner. <br>
<br>
There has been much progress made towards "criminalizing"
domestic violence - which has in turn required the criminal justice
system to respond to this abuse - there had been significant improvement
in this response but much work remains to be done. <br>
<br>
I am not sure if you are suggesting this is a direction we want to move
towards in the child protection field. I don't know that it would
be a productive move. I do however think we need more connection
between the criminal and family courts to better respond to child
maltreatment, particularly with regards to child sexual abuse and
domestic violence - in order to better hold sexual offenders and
batterers accountable for their abusive behavior.<br>
<br>
Take the issue of failure to protect due to domestic violence - if the
mother is being battered by her partner, the state can find for neglect
due to exposure to domestic violence. The mother in many of these
cases is the 'founded perpetrator' due to failure to protect.
Unless the batterer is found to have directly maltreated the child, he
may not be founded for the maltreatment. The state can recommend
batterer treatment, but has little leverage to get the batterer to comply
beyond the threat of losing custody of his children - he can't be sent to
jail for not following through because he has not been criminally
prosecuted. And if the batterer is not the biological father of the
children or legally married to the mother he may not be included in an
treatment plan for the family. See Jeff Edleson's article on the
invisibility of fathers in the child protection system.<br>
<x-tab> </x-tab><br>
<b>Edleson, J.L. (1998). Responsible mothers and invisible
men: Child protection in the case of adult domestic violence.
<u>Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 13,2,</u> 294-298.<br>
<br>
<br>
</b>Carolyn Hartley, Ph.D.<br>
Assistant Professor<br>
University of Iowa<br>
School of Social Work<br>
<br>
At 11:12 AM 10/10/2001 -0400, you wrote:<br>
<blockquote type=cite cite>Hello:<br>
<br>
I am interested in research data relating to adults being charged with
crimes against children. I suspect that: 1) adults are often not charged
with crimes that they commit against children; 2) adults are charged with
less severe crimes than they may be if the act were committed against
another adult; 3) parents are rarely charged with crimes against their
children; 4) when charged with crimes against their children, parents are
more often found guilty of less serious offenses than what they are
originally charged with.<br>
<br>
I am interested to know of any research that addresses these
issues.<br>
<br>
Frank<br>
Program Manager<br>
Michigan Child Welfare Law Resource Center<br>
611 Church Street, Suite 4C<br>
Ann Arbor, Michigan 48104-3000<br>
P: (734) 998-9191<br>
F: (734) 998-9190</blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></html>
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Hi Dick, I am currently doing my masters on familicide which is filicide, spousal homicide and suicide. i would like to share some information and ideas about this. I am located in perth western Australia and have been working on this for 5 years. I have found that there is almost no info in this area and have done extensive lit searches throughout the 5 years but would like to talk about some of the info i do have. carolyn
>>> dick.sobsey@ualberta.ca 08/09/01 10:30pm >>>
We are currently studying homicides of children. I've come across some
information on Resnick's system of classifying filicides (killing of
children by their parents). In particular, I am interested in what Resnick
refers to as "altruistic filicides," homicides in which parents kill their
children believing (or rationalizing) that they are actually doing what is
best for the child. Resnick and some others classify about half of all
filicides in this category.
Much of this work was done in the late 60s and early 70s. We have found
only a few recent articles that address these classifications. If anyone is
aware of a good literature on this topic, I would be grateful to be pointed
in the right direction. I am particularly interested in finding clear
definitions and criteria for the various categories (e.g., altruistic
homicide, extended suicide), studies of fathers and mothers using this
classification system, anything that addresses the validity, reliability,
or functional utility of this system, or anything that compares it with
other classification systems.
If anyone can help, I would appreciate a reply (either directly to me or to
this list). Thanks.
Dick Sobsey
Dick Sobsey, Director
JP Das Developmental Disabilities Centre
University of Alberta
6-123 Education North
Edmonton, Alberta T6G 2G5 Canada
phone: (780) 492-3755
fax: (780) 492-1318
dick.sobsey@ualberta.ca