Child abuse potential: Correlates with child maltreatment rates and structural measures of neighborhoods

Children and Youth Services Review

Volumn 31, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 927-934

  Merritt, Darcey H ^a  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Child abuse potential; Child maltreatment; Hierarchical linear modeling; Multi level analysis; Neighborhoods

Indexed keywords

EID: 65849094740     PISSN: 01907409     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.childyouth.2009.04.009     Document Type: Article

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