Racial/ethnic disparity in child welfare systems: A longitudinal study utilizing the Disparity Index (DI)

Children and Youth Services Review

Volumn 33, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 1234-1244

  Kim, Hansung ^a   Chenot, David ^b   Ji, Juye ^c  

^a Hanyang University   (South Korea)

^b CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Child maltreatment; Child welfare services; Latent growth curve modeling; Out of home care; Racial ethnic disparity

Indexed keywords

EID: 79955754626     PISSN: 01907409     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.childyouth.2011.02.021     Document Type: Article

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