NCJ Number
152556
Journal
Child Abuse and Neglect Volume: 18 Issue: 12 Dated: (December 1994) Pages: 1073-1084
Date Published
1994
Length
12 pages
Annotation
This study examined a population consisting of 72 Brooklyn, N.Y., children and their alleged adult abusers. For the purpose of identifying variables that were predictive of the child's risk of being abused.
Abstract
The cases were investigated in the Child Protective Services office in Bedford-Stuyvesant by 12 workers who volunteered to participate in the research effort. The workers assigned to a case filled out the standard New York City case recording instrument, called the Child Protective Services Review Document (CPSRD), the Magura-Moses Child Well-Being Scales, and the Beck and Jones List of Problems and Conditions. They also evaluated the degree of risk of abuse that the children were exposed to from the alleged abuser, using a supplemental scale created for this study. The hypotheses were that variables from each of the instruments would be predictive of the case decisionmaking by protective service workers regarding the abuse to which a child was exposed, that the data from the Magura-Moses scales would have predictive value for a minority population, and that the data from the CPSRD would reflect unique dimensions of this population. The data from the 72 cases supported each of these hypotheses. 8 tables and 11 references