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RE: child maltreatment declines 12% 2006-2007
Dear colleagues:
Is their any validity to/evidence for the statistical description I once heard of app 1,000 cases of CAN for every child maltreated to death? Is anyone familiar with this statistical description and have any idea where it comes from?
Thank you very much in advance!
Kind regards,
Jan CM Willems
Dr Jan CM Willems
Child Maltreatment, Early Childhood & Children's Rights
Department of International and European Law and Maastricht Center for Human Rights
Maastricht University Faculty of Law, The Netherlands
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From: bounce-3761623-6833864@list.cornell.edu [mailto:bounce-3761623-6833864@list.cornell.edu] On Behalf Of Hagemeister, Annelies K
Sent: zondag 5 april 2009 18:25
To: Child Maltreatment Researchers
Subject: RE: child maltreatment declines 12% 2006-2007
Dear child maltreatment colleagues:
While this is good information on one hand, I think we still need to be cautiously optimistic. As noted by other postings to this list, often administrative tracking changes can made fairly large changes. Also, with the number of places involved in using "alternative response" or "family assessment" for cases that come in, which don't require a formal substantiation or determination of abuse, cases that would once have been counted may no longer be counted. Further, a downside, I think is this finding: "The estimated number of children who died as a result of maltreatment rose by approximately 200 to 1760, a 15.5 percent increase over last year."
I also worry that budget cuts to human services can mean cut backs in the number of people to respond to cases, which can have the effect of having fewer cases opened for services, even when they should. This practice will also reduce the number of cases.
Annelies Hagemeister, PhD, MSW, LISW
Associate Professor
MSW Admissions Coordinator
Department of Social Work
358 Trafton Center North
Minnesota State University, Mankato
Mankato, MN 56001
Phone: 507-389-5078
Email: annelies.hagemeister@mnsu.edu<mailto:annelies.hagemeister@mnsu.edu>
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From: bounce-3758160-6833861@list.cornell.edu [bounce-3758160-6833861@list.cornell.edu] On Behalf Of Finkelhor, David [David.Finkelhor@unh.edu]
Sent: Friday, April 03, 2009 1:45 PM
To: child-maltreatment-research-L@cornell.edu
Subject: child maltreatment declines 12% 2006-2007
The Administration of Children Youth and Families released 2007 child maltreatment numbers on April 1, but it did not make the news in any of the places that I track, despite the fact that it shows a one year drop of 12% for all forms of maltreatment, which is the largest single year decline that has even occurred.
http://www.acf.hhs.gov/news/press/2009/child_maltreatment_report_07.html
Here's the release with links to the report.
David
David Finkelhor
Crimes against Children Research Center
Family Research Laboratory
Department of Sociology, University of New Hampshire
Durham, NH 03824
Tel 603 862-2761* Fax 603 862-1122
email: david.finkelhor@unh.edu<mailto:david.finkelhor@unh.edu>
http://www.unh.edu/ccrc/
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"Sexual abuse is down 5% and physical abuse down 3% in the most recent NCANDS data."
See update on new 2006 child maltreatment trends:
http://www.unh.edu/ccrc/