Canadian Incidence Study of Reported Child Abuse and Neglect: methodology.

Methodological challenges in measuring child maltreatment.

OBJECTIVE This article reviewed the different surveillance systems used to monitor the extent of reported child maltreatment in North America. METHODS Key measurement and definitional differences between the surveillance systems are detailed and their potential impact on the measurement of the rate of victimization. The infrastructure requirements, quality of information, timely access to dat...

Canadian Incidence Study of Reported Child Abuse and Neglect: Selected Results

Correlates of joint child protection and police child sexual abuse investigations: results from the Canadian Incidence Study of Reported Child Abuse and Neglect-2008.

INTRODUCTION Our study examines the frequency of joint investigations by child protection workers and the police in sexual abuse investigations compared to other maltreatment types and the association of child-, caregiver-, maltreatment- and investigation-related characteristics in joint investigations, focussing specifically on investigations involving sexual abuse. METHODS We analyzed data ...

Major findings from the Canadian incidence study of reported child abuse and neglect.

OBJECTIVE To present key findings from the Canadian Incidence Study of Reported Child Maltreatment (CIS) in sufficient detail to provide a basis for international comparisons in terms of forms and severity of maltreatment and the age and sex of victims. METHOD A survey conducted in a random sample of 51 child welfare service areas across Canada tracked child maltreatment investigations conduc...

بررسی‌ اشکال‌ مختلف‌ سوء رفتار با کودک‌ و برخی‌ عوامل‌ مستعد کننده‌ آن‌ در

  Background : Second half of 20th century is named as child age, because the improvement of society depends on the child growth and development. Child abuse includes many bizzar behaviors such as bodily punishment, sexual and emotional abuse. Abuse can be physical, emotional and educational neglect, which has profound effect on child's health, growth and development.   Objective : To determine...