Community Level Factors and Child Maltreatment Rates.

Autor/inn/en	Coulton, Claudia; und weitere
Institution	Case Western Reserve Univ., Cleveland, OH. Center for Urban Poverty and Social Change.
Titel	Community Level Factors and Child Maltreatment Rates.
Quelle	(1994), (43 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
Schlagwörter	At Risk Persons; Child Abuse; Child Neglect; Community Influence; Context Effect; Economic Factors; Family Characteristics; Family Structure; Low Income Groups; Neighborhoods; One Parent Family; Poverty; Social Problems; Urban Areas; Urban Problems + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Risikogruppe; Abuse of children; Abuse; Child; Children; Kindesmissbrauch; Missbrauch; Kind; Kinder; Kindesvernachlässigung; Ökonomischer Faktor; Familienkonstellation; Familiensystem; Neighbourhoods; Nachbarschaft; Single parent family; Ein-Eltern-Familie; Armut; Social problem; Soziales Problem; Urban area; Stadtregion
Abstract	Variation in rates of officially reported child maltreatment in urban neighborhoods is related to structural determinants of community social organization: economic and family resources, residential instability, household and age structure and geographic proximity of neighborhoods to concentrated poverty. Furthermore, child maltreatment rates are found to be intercorrelated with other indicators of the breakdown of community social control and organization. These other indicators are similarly affected by the structural dimensions of neighborhood context. Children who live in neighborhoods that are characterized by poverty, excessive numbers of children per adult resident, population turnover and the concentration of female-headed families are at highest risk of maltreatment. This analysis suggests that child maltreatment is but one manifestation of community social organization and that its occurrence is related to some of the same underlying macro-social conditions that foster other urban problems. (Contains 58 references, 5 tables, and 2 figures.) (Author)
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2004/1/01