Poverty and Child Maltreatment

Child Maltreatment: Contemporary Issues in Research and Policy

Volumn 2, Issue , 2014, Pages 131-148

  Drake, Brett ^a   Jonson Reid, Melissa ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN ST LOUIS   (United States)

Author keywords

Child Maltreatment; Child Welfare; Collective Efficacy; Great Recession; Physical Abuse

Indexed keywords

EID: 85130816759     PISSN: 22119701     EISSN: 2211971X     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-94-007-7208-3_7     Document Type: Chapter

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