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- Title
Concordance Between Self-Reported Maltreatment and Court Records of Abuse or Neglect Among High-Risk Youths.
- Authors
Swahn, Monica H.; Whitaker, Daniel J.; Pippen, Courtney B.; Leeb, Rebecca T.; Teplin, Linda A.; Abram, Karen M.; McClelland, Gary M.
- Abstract
Objectives. We examined the concordance between measures of self-reported maltreatment and court records of abuse or neglect in a sample of detained youths. Methods. Data were collected by the Northwestern Juvenile Project and include interviews from 1829 youths aged 10-18 years. Participants were newly detained youths in the Cook County Juvenile Temporary Detention Center in Illinois between 1995 and 1998. Self-reported cases of child maltreatment were compared with court records of abuse or neglect in the Cook County judicial system. Results. We found that among detained youths, 16.6% of those who reported any maltreatment, 22.2% of those who reported the highest level of maltreatment, and 25.1% of those who reported that they required medical treatment as a result of maltreatment had a court record of abuse or neglect. Among those with any self-reported maltreatment, girls (vs boys) and African Americans (vs Whites) were more likely to have a court record (adjusted odds ratio [AOR] = 2.18; 95% confidence interval [CI] = 1.53, 3.09; and AOR = 2.12;95% CI = 1.23, 3.63, respectively). Conclusions. Official records seriously underestimate the prevalence of maltreatment, which indicates that multiple data sources are needed to document the true prevalence of maltreatment. (Am J Public Health. 2006;96:1849-1853. doi:10.2105/AJPH.2004.058230)
- Subjects
COOK County (Ill.); ILLINOIS; CRIMES against children; REPORTING of child abuse; COURT records; ABUSED children; DOMESTIC violence; JUVENILE detention; ETHNIC groups; GENDER; PUBLIC health surveillance
- Publication
American Journal of Public Health, 2006, Vol 96, Issue 10, p1849
- ISSN
0090-0036
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2105/AJPH.2004.058230