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Child abuse in the Deep South : geographical modifiers of abuse characteristics /
The recognition of child abuse as a troubling social and public health problem along with the documentation required by mandatory reporting laws have made possible the epidemiological investigation of risk factors association with child abuse. Child Abuse in the Deep South is a study of physical and...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Tuscaloosa :
Published for the Institute for Social Science Research by the University of Alabama Press,
©1988.
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| Colección: | Monograph series (University of Alabama. Institute for Social Science Research) ;
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | The recognition of child abuse as a troubling social and public health problem along with the documentation required by mandatory reporting laws have made possible the epidemiological investigation of risk factors association with child abuse. Child Abuse in the Deep South is a study of physical and sexual child abuse designed to measure the incidence of child abuse and neglect in the state of Alabama, identify the characteristics of confirmed abuse, and test the hypothesis that community size is a key, predictive variable in the surveillance, reporting, and caseworker determination of abuse. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (ix, 161 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 154-158) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780817389857 0817389857 |