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The Role of Law Enforcement in the Response to Child Abuse and Neglect
User Manual Series (1992)

Author(s):  U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Donna Pence, Charles Wilson

Year Published:  1992

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Notes

1. American Bar Association, American Enterprise Institute, American Public Welfare Association, and The Police Foundation, Law Enforcement/Child Protection Cooperation in Handling of Child Abuse Cases (1989), 10.
   
   
2. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, National Center on Child Abuse and Neglect, Study Findings: Study of National Incidence and Prevalence of Child Abuse and Neglect: 1988 (Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1988), 6.
   
   
3. American Bar Association, Law Enforcement/Child Protection Cooperation, 20.
   
   
4. National Center on Child Abuse and Neglect, Study Findings, 6-17.
   
   
5. American Bar Association, Law Enforcement/Child Protection Cooperation, 43.
   
   
6. Ibid., 44.
   
   
7. Ibid., 44.
   
   
8. D. J. Besharov, Child Abuse and Neglect Reporting and Investigation: Policy Guidelines for Decision Making (Chicago: American Bar Association, 1988), 3.
   
   
9. Ibid.
   
   
10. Attorney General's Task Force on Family Violence, Final Report (Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Justice, 1984), 13.
    
    
11. Tennessee Department of Human Services, Child Sexual Abuse Task Force, Child Sexual Abuse State Plan, 1986.
    
    
12. American Bar Association, Law Enforcement/Child Protection Cooperation, 31.
    
    
13. Ibid., 40.
    
    
14. D. Pence and C. Wilson, "The Uneasy Alliance," Advisor, 1(1989).
    
    
15. Ibid.
    
    
16. K. Drews, M. Salus, and D. Dodge, Child Protective Services: Inservice Training for Supervisors and Workers (Washington, DC: Creative Associates, Inc., 1980).
    
    
17. Information to gather from the reporter has evolved over many years of practice. Discussions began in the We Can Help Curriculum (Washington, DC: National Center on Child Abuse and Neglect, 1978); J. L. Jenkins, M. K. Salus, and G. L. Schultze, Child Protective Services: A Guide for Workers (Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, August 1979); Drew, Salus, and Dodge, Child Protective Services Inservice Training for Supervisors and Workers; and W. Holder and C. Mohr, eds., Helping in Child Protective Services: A Casework Handbook (Englewood, CO: American Humane Association, 1980). In addition, the development of State CPS policy and procedures has further defined the information to be gathered from the reporter.
    
    
18. Tennessee Bureau of Investigation, Child Sexual Abuse Investigation Manual (Nashville: Tennessee Bureau of Investigation, 1987).
    
    
19. D. Muram, "Child Sexual Abuse: Relationship Between Sexual Acts and General Findings," Child Abuse and Neglect 13(1989):211-216.
    
    
20. S. Sgroi, Presentation at National Child Abuse Conference, Baltimore, 1983.
    
    
21. Tennessee Bureau of Investigation, Child Sexual Abuse Investigation Manual.
    
    
22. Ibid., 27-50.
    
    
23. S. Sgroi, F. Porter, and L. Blick, Handbook of Clinical Intervention in Child Sexual Abuse (Lexington, MA: Lexington Books, 1982).
    
    
24. K. Faller, "Criteria for Judging the Credibility of Children's Statements About Their Sexual Abuse," Child Welfare 67 (September/October, 1988).
    
    
25. Ibid.
    
    
26. D. Jones and M. McGraw, "Reliable and Fictitious Accounts of Sexual Abuse to Children," Journal of Interpersonal Violence 2(March 1987):32.
    
    
27. K. McFarlane, Presentation at National Conference on Child Abuse and Neglect, Chicago, 1985.
    
    
28. Jones and McGraw, "Reliable and Fictitious Accounts of Sexual Abuse to Children," 33.
    
    
29. Faller, "Criteria for Judging the Credibility of Children's Statements About Their Sexual Abuse."
    
    
30. Tennessee Bureau of Investigation, Child Sexual Abuse Investigation Manual.
    
    
31. S. Goldstein, The Sexual Exploitation of Children (New York: Elsevier, 1987), 317.
    
    
32. Child Sexual Abuse Task Force, Child Sexual Abuse State Plan.
    
    
33. E. Elmer and B. Schultz, "Social Work Evaluation and the Family Assessment," in D. Bross et al., eds., The New Child Protection Team Handbook (New York: Garland Publishing, 1988), 146.
    
    
34. Ibid.
    
    
35. B. Schmitt, "Physical Abuse: The Medical Evaluation," in Bross et al., New Child Protection Team Handbook, 54.
    
    
36. American Bar Association, Law Enforcement/Child Protection Cooperation, 15.
    
    
37. Jones and McGraw, "Reliable and Fictitious Accounts of Sexual Abuse to Children."
    
    
38. K. McFarlane and J. Waterman, Sexual Abuse of Young Children (New York: Guilford Press, 1986), 121-150.
    
    
39. Ibid.
    
    
40. Jones and McGraw, "Reliable and Fictitious Accounts of Sexual Abuse to Children."
    
    
41. D. Corwin, Conference Presentation, Invitational Forum on Ritualistic Abuse of Children, Sacramento, CA, 1986.
    
    
42. R. Cage, Personal Communication, 1988.
    
    
43. McFarlane, Conference Presentation.
    
    
44. D. Pence, "Macro-Case," in K. Lanning, Investigations of Child Sex Rings (Arlington, VA: National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, 1989).
    
    
45. National Committee for Prevention of Child Abuse, National Center on Child Abuse Prevention Research, Current Trends in Child Abuse Reporting and Fatalities: The Results of the 1990 Annual Fifty State Survey (Chicago: National Committee for Prevention of Child Abuse, April 1991), 16.
    
    
46. National Center for Prosecution of Child Abuse, Investigation and Prosecution of Child Abuse, Volume II (Alexandria, VA: National Center for Prosecution of Child Abuse, 1987), 51.
    
    
47. Ibid.
    
    
48. Task Force for the Study of Non-Accidental Injuries and Child Deaths, Protocol for Child Death Autopsies (Springfield, IL: Illinois Department of Children and Family Services, 1987).
    
    
49. National Center for Prosecution of Child Abuse, Investigation and Prosecution of Child Abuse, Volume II, 51.
    
    
50. R. Kean and E. Rogers, "The Law Enforcement Officer as a Member of the Child Protective Team," in Bross et al., New Child Protection Team Handbook, 209.
    
    
51. National Center for Prosecution of Child Abuse, Investigation and Prosecution of Child Abuse, Volume II, 46.
    
    
52. National Center for Prosecution of Child Abuse, Investigation and Prosecution of Child Abuse, Volume II, 51.
    
    
53. Kean and Rogers, "Law Enforcement Officer as a Member of the Child Protective Team," 209.
    
    
54. National Center for Prosecution of Child Abuse, Investigation and Prosecution of Child Abuse, Volume II, 46.

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