TY  - BOOK
AU  - University of Alabama
AU  - Badger,Lee W.
TI  - Child abuse in the Deep South: geographical modifiers of abuse characteristics 
T2  - Monograph series
SN  - 9780817389857
AV  - HV6626 .C455 1988
PY  - 1988///
CY  - Tuscaloosa
PB  - Published for the Institute for Social Science Research by the University of Alabama Press
KW  - Child abuse
KW  - Alabama
KW  - Statistics
KW  - Victims of crimes surveys
KW  - City dwellers
KW  - Rural population
KW  - Children
KW  - Abuse
KW  - Geographical factors
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - 2; Tables; Figures; Preface; Part One: Historical Perspectives and Current Understandings; 1. The Problem of Definitions; 2. Physical Child Abuse; 3. Sexual Child Abuse; Part Two: Child Abuse in Alabama: An Epidemiological Investigation; 4. The Context and Methodology of the Study ; 5. Social and Cultural Modifiers of Reporter and Caseworker Determinations; 6. The Sources of Reports; 7. Results of the Study: The State; 8. The Ecological Context of Physical Abuse; 9. The Ecological Context of Sexual Abuse; Epilogue; Appendixes; References; Index; 2; b
N2  - 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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