Decomposing Black-White Differences in Child Maltreatment

Child Maltreatment

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 112-121

  Ards, Sheila D ^a   Myers Jr , Samuel L ^b   Chung, Chanjin ^c   Malkis, Allan ^b   Hagerty, Brian ^d,e  

^a BENEDICT COLLEGE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^c OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN LAW SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Aggregation bias; Maltreatment; National Incidence Studies; Racial disproportionalily; Reporting bias; Welfare

Indexed keywords

AFRICAN AMERICAN; ARTICLE; CAUCASIAN; CHILD; CHILD ABUSE; ETHNOLOGY; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MEDICAL RECORD; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES;

AFRICAN AMERICANS; CHILD; CHILD ABUSE; DATA COLLECTION; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FORMS AND RECORDS CONTROL; HUMANS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0041851061     PISSN: 10775595     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1077559502250817     Document Type: Article

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