Justice Systems Processing of Child Abuse and Neglect Cases in a Local Jurisdiction (County) in the United States, 1993-1994 / Susan J. Wells, Andrea Sedlak.

Format:

Datafile

Contributor:

Wells, Susan J.

Sedlak, Andrea.

Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research.

Series:

ICPSR (Series) ; 2310.

ICPSR ; 2310

Language:

English

Genre:

Academic theses.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Edition:

ICPSR version.

Place of Publication:

Ann Arbor, Mich. : Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2000.

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

data file

Summary:

The purpose of this study was to provide a comprehensive, case-level examination of the full spectrum of case processing of serious child abuse and neglect cases as they flowed through the justice process, from initial receipt of a report to final disposition in the criminal and/or civil court. This was accomplished by in-depth, detailed tracking, from a single jurisdiction, of both prospective and retrospective samples of serious child abuse cases reported to child protective services and law enforcement agencies. The four agencies that participated directly by providing case samples and case files for tracking were: (1) Child Protective Services (CPS), (2) the sheriff's office, (3) Dependency Court Legal Services (DCLS), and (4) the county prosecutor's office. Each case was abstracted at the point of sampling and then tracked throughout the other participating agencies. Data were collected over a nine-month period. Part 1, Maltreatment Abstract, Person Roster, and CPS Abstract Data, contains three types of data. First, information is provided on each maltreatment incident committed by each perpetrator, background of the perpetrator and the victim, and characteristics of the incident. The data continue with a roster of persons, which covers the relationships among the individuals in the case and whether any of these individuals were living together at the time of the maltreatment. Data from the CPS abstract include which source brought the case to the attention of Protective Services, the dates, priority, and investigation level of the report, if any prior allegations of maltreatment had occurred that involved either the same victims and/or perpetrators and, if so, information on those reports, and the perpetrator's response to the incident and level of cooperation with the investigation. For each victim, information is given on medical findings, if applicable, wheth... Cf.: http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR02310

Contents:

Part 1: Maltreatment Abstract, Person Roster, and CPS AbstractData; Part 2: Dependency Court Abstract Data; Part 3: Juvenile Court Schedule of Hearings Data; Part 4: Law Enforcement Abstract Data; Part 5: State Attorney's Office Abstract Data; Part 6: Criminal Court Schedule of Hearings Data; Part 7: State Attorney Addendum Data

Notes:

Title from ICPSR DDI metadata of 2004-10-30.

OCLC:

61146903

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