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Related Resources: Responding to Child Fatalities
Additional resources on responding to child fatalities, including State and local examples.
Battered Child Syndrome: Investigating Physical Abuse and Homicide
Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (2002)
Presents practical information on the circumstances that point to the willful, rather than accidental, injury or death of an infant or child and the evidence required to prove it, as well as the techniques for obtaining such evidence. (PDF - 174 KB)
Child Fatalities
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This directory lists national organizations that disseminate information about child fatalities. The organizations provide advocacy, professional training, program development, public awareness, and research services.
Child Maltreatment Fatalities: What Do We Know, What Have We Done, and Where Do We Go From Here?
Douglas
In Child Victimization: Maltreatment, Bullying and Dating Violence, Prevention and Intervention (2005)
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Reviews the characteristics of victims and perpetrators and describes policy responses to fatal maltreatment, including child death review panels, training for investigators, prevention and education campaigns, safe-haven laws, and prosecution.
Children First: National Model for the Vertical Prosecution of Cases Involving Murdered and Physically Abused Children
Williams
Journal of Aggression, Maltreatment and Trauma, 12(3/4), 2006
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Discusses a model outline to ensure that investigations and prosecutions involving murdered and physically abused children include the local prosecutor's office, and highlights how the office can take the lead in ensuring justice by direct participation in the investigative phase and by ensuring continuity in the prosecution.
Distinguishing Sudden Infant Death Syndrome From Child Abuse Fatalities
Hymel
Pediatrics, 118(1), 2006
Provides professionals with information and suggestions for procedures to help avoid stigmatizing families of sudden infant death syndrome victims while allowing accumulation of appropriate evidence in potential cases of infanticide.
Investigation and Review of Unexpected Infant and Child Deaths
American Academy of Pediatrics (1999)
Discussion and recommendations for adequate child death investigations and reviews. (PDF - 102 KB)
Serving Those Left Behind: Crisis Intervention in Child Fatality Cases
American Prosecutors Research Institute (2004)
Reviews strategies for helping parents as they experience shock, awareness of loss, guilt, healing, and renewal.
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State and local examples
Dangerous Mistakes: Analysis of ACS Corrective Actions Involving Child Fatalities in 2005 (PDF - 109 KB)
Office of the New York City Public Advocate (2007)
Discusses the outcomes of a review of all child fatalities investigated by the New York Administration for Children's Services in 2005, including recommendations for strengthening the child welfare system's response to child fatalities.
Facing the Facts: Criminal Consequences of Child Abuse Homicides (PDF - 37 KB)
North Carolina Child Advocacy Institute (2005)
Presents statistics on the number of child abuse fatalities in North Carolina and makes recommendations designed to achieve a balance between equity in cases that have similar circumstances, justice for the victims, and protection for other children that may be under the perpetrator's sphere of influence.
Reducing Collateral Damage on the Home Front: Child Abuse Homicides Within Military Families and Communities in North Carolina: Facts and Recommendations
North Carolina Child Advocacy Institute (2004)
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Discusses the incidence of child abuse homicides within military communities and provides recommendations for reducing child abuse homicides within military families and the communities surrounding installations.
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