Re: re unrelated males in household

["Scott Linder" <shlinder@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

There is also the issue of reporting.  Do family reporting methods, such as 
delays or the witholding of information, have an impact on statistical 
counts that are used to compute these low base rates?

Scott Linder
Student
California State University Hayward


>From: jcrowley@nmsu.edu
>Reply-To: CHILD-MALTREATMENT-RESEARCH-L@cornell.edu
>To: Child Maltreatment Researchers   
><CHILD-MALTREATMENT-RESEARCH-L@cornell.edu>
>Subject: Re: re unrelated males in household
>Date: Wed, 19 Jun 2002 11:51:04 -0600
>
>Granted, death is an infrequent outcome in abuse cases (thank
>heaven).  However, the difference between aggravated assault and
>homicide is often a combination of luck (good or bad), and access to
>prompt medical care.  Homicide is often studied because it is easy to
>count accurately, and because there is usually a lot of information
>available about these cases.  Assault is much more frequent, harder
>to measure, and records are likely to be incomplete.
>
>Child homicide is literally the canary in the abuse coal mine.  When
>less sensitive indicators are unavailable, death is a clear indicator of
>trouble.
>
>It seems to me that the point of the study is to confirm the suspicion
>that unrelated males in the household are a risk factor for child
>abuse.  The problems measuring low base rates means that a
>relationship has to be very strong if we are going to pick it up as
>significant.
>
>The application of the information about risks associated with
>presence of unrelated males is just the same as the application of
>other risk factor information.  It should support a closer look into
>family circumstances, and be added to other information on a case
>by case basis.  Joan E. Crowley
>New Mexico State University
>Department of Criminal Justice
>MSC 3487
>Box 30001
>Las Cruces, NM 88003-8001
>jcrowley@nmsu.edu
>


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