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 What are official statistics?

 Statistics: numerical data

 Official: gathered by government officials or people receiving government money in the course of doing performing normal jobs

 Uniform Crime Reports (UCRs)

 Unrecognized

 Unreported

 Unrecorded

 Strengths

 Fast: Pre-collected  Cheap  Longitudinal: over history  Breadth: no sampling

 Weaknesses

 Validity  Change/Absent categories  Data gathering  Self interpretation

 Questionnaire

 Sampling  Probability  Convenience  Snowball

 Mode of Administration

 Coding and Analysis

 Choose a Topic/Personal Biography

 Gaining Entrée

 Forging Trust and Relationships

 Developing Analysis

 Today most states have laws that require most professionals who serve children to report of all forms of suspected child maltreatment:  Physical abuse  Sexual abuse  Physical neglect  Exploitation  Emotional maltreatment

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 These reporting laws have been very successful:  In 1993 about 3 million reports of child abuse or neglect reported compared to only 150,000 in early 1960s

 Earlier reporting statistics not reliable so cannot provide a baseline study against which to make comparisons

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 56% or about 500,000 abused & neglected

cases unreported (1986)

 2,000 with observable signs (bruises,

scrapes) that required hospitalization

 100,000 with moderate signs of abuse

 30,000 of those sexually abused

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 Nationwide 60 to 65 percent of all reports closed after finding of unfounded  Each year about 700,000 families are needlessly put through investigations of unfounded reports, a massive violation of parental rights  So many unfounded reports waste valuable resources of child protection agencies  This explains why 25 to 50 percent of child abuse deaths involve children previously known to authorities since caseworkers are overwhelmed and desensitized

Unsubstantiated Reports

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