Racial Disparities in Child Physical and Sexual Abuse Substantiations: Associations with Childs’ and Accused Individuals’ Race

Atkinson, Kadee D.; Fix, Spencer T.; Fix, Rebecca L.

doi:10.1007/s10826-022-02403-0

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“…Existing work using data similar to NCANDS at the state level (Putnam-Hornstein et al, 2013;Maloney et al, 2017) or using NCANDS data at the national level (Atkinson et al, 2023;Drake et al, 2021;Fix & McNair, 2020;Maguire-Jack et al, 2020) have not shown substantiation or removal differentials nearly as large as those found by Briggs et al, either at bivariate or multivariate levels.…”

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confidence: 88%

Poverty or Racism? A Re-Analysis of Briggs et al. 2022

Drake

Jones

Chen

et al. 2023

Research on Social Work Practice

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Purpose: This paper presents a re-analysis of the National Child Abuse and Neglect Data System (NCANDS) data presented by Briggs et al. (2022). Methods: We review five components of that article: The aims, variables, analytic strategy, analysis, and conclusions. Results: We conclude that several of the NCANDS variables used are invalid at the national level, and that this is sufficient to call the research into question. We find concerning issues in analytic strategy and analysis as well, many stemming from a failure to account for the serious underreporting of services in NCANDS, and the wide variability in data quality and consistency across states. We also found what we consider to be issues with their statistical analysis. Discussion: The reanalysis presented in this article shows no pattern of disparate within Child Protective Services (CPS) outcomes by race and, therefore, no support for the Briggs et al. claim of pervasive anti-Black racism within the CPS system.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 88%

Poverty or Racism? A Re-Analysis of Briggs et al. 2022

Drake

Jones

Chen

et al. 2023

Research on Social Work Practice

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“…In an analysis of 58 alleged perpetrators of child sexual abuse occurring within a daycare setting, the perpetrators were less frequently arrested and convicted when the children were Black girls, as compared to White girls (Williams & Farrell, 1990). Similarly, child sexual abuse substantiation likelihood was lower for Black children, relative to children of other ethnicities, according to a recent analysis of the National Child Abuse and Neglect Data System (Atkinson et al, 2022). These effects might reflect aversive racism (Gaertner & Dovidio, 1986) -- a modern form of racism in which individuals explicitly endorse egalitarian values but nonetheless harbor racist sentiments.…”

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confidence: 99%

When Disclosure Fails to Substantiate Abuse: Child and Perpetrator Race Predict Child Sexual Abuse Substantiation

Stevenson

Rivers²

2023

Child Maltreat

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We examined the effects of child race, perpetrator race, and abuse disclosure status (within the context of a formal forensic interview) on abuse substantiation outcomes. Specifically, we coded child sexual abuse disclosure, abuse substantiation, and race of 315 children (80% girls, M age = 10, age range = 2–17; 75% White, 9% Black, 12% Biracial, 3% Hispanic, 1% Asian) who underwent a child forensic interview in a Midwestern child advocacy center. Supporting hypotheses, abuse substantiation was more likely in cases involving (a) abuse disclosure (vs. no disclosure), (b) White children (vs. children of color), and (c) perpetrators of color (vs. White perpetrators). Also supporting hypotheses, the effect of abuse disclosure on increased abuse substantiation was greater for White children than for children of color. This research suggests that even when children of color disclose their experiences of sexual abuse, they nonetheless face barriers to abuse substantiation.

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