Family Surveillance: Police and the Reporting of Child Abuse and Neglect
Police are responsible for producing about one-fifth of all reports of child abuse and neglect investigated by local child welfare agencies, and low-level interactions with police often result in the initiation of a child welfare investigation. Because police contact is not randomly or equitably dis...
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| Language: | English |
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Russell Sage Foundation
2019-02-01
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| Series: | RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences |
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| Online Access: | https://www.rsfjournal.org/content/5/1/50 |