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- Title: Understanding the Geospatial Relationship of Neighborhood Characteristics and Rates of Maltreatment for Black, Hispanic, And White Children.
- Author : Social Work
- Release Date : January 01, 2007
- Genre: Social Science,Books,Nonfiction,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 239 KB
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Child welfare professionals and researchers alike are concerned with the overrepresentation of racial and ethnic minority children involved in the child welfare system. For example, black children are 51 percent more likely to be removed from their home due to child maltreatment than are white children (U.S. Department of Health and Human Services [HHS], 2004). According to Needell and colleagues (2003), this disparity could be due to at least three factors: differences in the child welfare needs of different racial and ethnic groups, discrimination by society, and discriminatory practices of child welfare workers. This debate over and interest in the reasons for overrepresentation of racial and ethnic minorities in the child welfare system continues to be of concern to professions who seek to explain, prevent, and intervene in those conditions that lead to such disparities. It is interesting that general population studies of child maltreatment have found that after controlling for family demographics, no differences exist in rates of child abuse and neglect by race or ethnicity (Sedlak & Broadhurst, 1996).This suggests that factors related to discrimination, as suggested earlier, are at play, at least on some level. Providing additional evidence that bias may explain, at least in part, this overrepresentation is a study of substantiated maltreatment rates for Minnesota that explored the role of geography in this debate (Ards, Myers, Malkis, Sugrue, & Zhou, 2003). This study found disparities in child maltreatment rates even after controlling for information on victims, offenders, and counties. Furthermore, overrepresentation can be inflated depending on which level of aggregation is examined. For example, this study also showed that although these disparities exist, lower level of geographic aggregation (for example, county compared with state) provided a better estimate of the true overrepresentation of racial and ethnic minority children. To that end, the present study examines how neighborhood characteristics are related to substantiated rates of child maltreatment for black, Hispanic, and white children at the census tract level for three counties in California.
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