PSY 380 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: National Crime Victimization Survey, Uniform Crime Reports, Psychological Abuse

• School: University of Arizona
• Department: Psychology Main
• Course: PSY 380
• Professor: Andrew Perkin

Document Summary

Key issues with research on child maltreatment. Key findings from some sources of data. Without adequate data, there is no solid foundation to guide policy when news events grab public attention and lead to a public outcry. Official statistics: fbi uniform crime report, national incidence study (nis, cps data: national child abuse and neglect data system (ncands) Self-report surveys: of perpetration, of victimization (e. g. national crime victimization survey) Effects of maltreatment may not be immediately obvious. Difficulty in separating the effects of poverty and maltreatment. Conviction > arrest > substantiated > services > screened-in > reported cases > Noticed cases > all actual cases of child maltreatment. Research issues: definitions, theoretical causes of child maltreatment, unifying the field, co-occurrence, comparative effects of child maltreatment, balancing advocacy and empiricism. Lack of unified definitions: maltreatment, abuse, neglect, victimization . How do we indicate severity: is all family aggression abuse .