RT Research Data
T1 Police and Child Abuse: Policies and Practices in the United States, 1987-1988
A1 Martin, Susan E.
A2 Besharov, Douglas J.
LA English
PP Erscheinungsort nicht ermittelbar
PB [Verlag nicht ermittelbar]
YR 1996
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1840064579
AB This study was conducted by the Police Foundation and the American Enterprise Institute to document municipal and county law enforcement agencies' policies for dealing with child abuse, neglect, and sexual assault and exploitation, and to identify emerging police practices. The researchers investigated promising approaches for dealing with child abuse and also probed for areas of weakness that are in need of improvement. Data were collected from 122 law enforcement agencies on topics including interagency reporting and case screening procedures, the existence and organizational location of specialized units for conducting child abuse investigations, actual procedures for investigating various types of child abuse cases, factors that affect the decision to arrest in physical and sexual abuse cases, the scope and nature of interagency cooperative agreements practices and relations, the amount of training received by agency personnel, and ways to improve agency responses to child abuse and neglect cases.
K1 arrest procedures
K1 Case processing
K1 Child Abuse
K1 Child neglect
K1 law enforcement agencies
K1 Police Response
K1 policies and procedures
K1 Forschungsdaten
DO 10.3886/ICPSR06338.v1