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Police and Child Abuse: Policies and Practices in the United States, 1987-1988
This study was conducted by the Police Foundation and the
American Enterprise Institute to document municipal and county law
enforcement agencies' policies for dealing with child abuse, neglect,
and sexual assault and exploitation, and to identify emerging police
practices. The researchers investigated promising approaches for
dealing with child abuse and also probed for areas of weakness that
are in need of improvement. Data were collected from 122 law
enforcement agencies on topics including interagency reporting and
case screening procedures, the existence and organizational location
of specialized units for conducting child abuse investigations, actual
procedures for investigating various types of child abuse cases,
factors that affect the decision to arrest in physical and sexual
abuse cases, the scope and nature of interagency cooperative
agreements practices and relations, the amount of training received by
agency personnel, and ways to improve agency responses to child abuse
and neglect cases.
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Police and Child Abuse: Policies and Practices in the United States, 1987-1988
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| description | This study was conducted by the Police Foundation and the American Enterprise Institute to document municipal and county law enforcement agencies' policies for dealing with child abuse, neglect, and sexual assault and exploitation, and to identify emerging police practices. The researchers investigated promising approaches for dealing with child abuse and also probed for areas of weakness that are in need of improvement. Data were collected from 122 law enforcement agencies on topics including interagency reporting and case screening procedures, the existence and organizational location of specialized units for conducting child abuse investigations, actual procedures for investigating various types of child abuse cases, factors that affect the decision to arrest in physical and sexual abuse cases, the scope and nature of interagency cooperative agreements practices and relations, the amount of training received by agency personnel, and ways to improve agency responses to child abuse and neglect cases. |
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