NCJ Number
92573
Date Published
1981
Length
334 pages
Annotation
In outlining conference presentations, analyzing relevant cases, and providing additional conference resource materials, this notebook focuses on child abuse and neglect (including child sexual abuse), the relationship between family violence and chemical dependency, treatment for batterers, legal issues pertaining to family violence, and the criminal justice and community response to various aspects of family violence.
Abstract
Presentations deal with the nature and extent of child abuse and neglect and how the criminal justice system is responding to the problem, and particular attention is given to the scope of the problem of child sexual abuse, societal responses, and issues in intervention and prosecution. The case studies presented in five workshops are outlined under the format of the presenting problem, the case history, and the intervention activities. The case studies involve child physical and sexual abuse as well as neglect. The overall systemic approach to the plight of family violence victims is depicted under the traditional system of Federal, State, and county funding, and the new system of deciding priorities for government response is outlined. Also provided is a summary of the Community Social Services Act and a discussion of what it means to the State's (Minnesota) counties. The premise of the paper on the disclosure dilemma in dealing with a combination of family violence and chemical dependency is that in the course of chemical-dependency diagnosis or treatment, a caseworker may uncover information suggesting that the chemically dependent person is physically or sexually abusing a child. Other topics covered by the presentations include treatment for batterers, the Domestic Abuse Act, sentencing and treatment options for the court, a prosecution perspective of intra-family child sexual abuse, family violence cases in juvenile court, a systematic approach to litigating family violence cases, and developing family violence policies and systems within a community.