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ArticleJournal of interpersonal violence2024

Levels of Involvement with Child Protection Services Associated with Early Adolescent Police Contact as a Victim and Person of Interest.

Stacy Tzoumakis, Tyson Whitten, Kristin R Laurens, Kimberlie Dean, Felicity Harris, Vaughan J Carr, Melissa J Green

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Article in Journal of interpersonal violence, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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7 authors at 4 institutions in 1 country.

Stacy TzoumakisSchool of Criminology and Criminal Justice, Griffith University, Southport, QLD, Australia.ORCID 0000-0001-6480-1710
Tyson WhittenDiscipline of Psychiatry and Mental Health, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia.ORCID 0000-0001-8391-1990
Kristin R LaurensDiscipline of Psychiatry and Mental Health, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia.ORCID 0000-0002-3987-6486
Kimberlie DeanDiscipline of Psychiatry and Mental Health, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia.
Felicity HarrisDiscipline of Psychiatry and Mental Health, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia.
Vaughan J CarrDiscipline of Psychiatry and Mental Health, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia.
Melissa J GreenDiscipline of Psychiatry and Mental Health, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia.
UNSW Sydney · AUCharles Sturt University · AUGriffith University · AUQueensland University of Technology · AU

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The relationship between childhood maltreatment and subsequent offending/victimization is well established. However, the magnitude of this relationship for different levels of child protection services (CPS) involvement is poorly understood, due to measurement issues, lack of longitudinal data, and reliance on reports of substantiated maltreatment, which can underestimate the impact of maltreatment. This study examined associations between CPS involvement during childhood (ages 0 to <11 years) and police services contact (as a victim and/or a person of interest) for criminal incidents in early adolescence (11 to ~14 years), differentiated according to levels of CPS involvement (i.e., no risk of significant harm [non-ROSH], unsubstantiated ROSH, substantiated ROSH, and out-of-home care; each examined relative to no CPS contact). Data for 71,465 children were drawn from the New South Wales Child Development Study, an intergenerational, longitudinal investigation that uses administrative records from CPS and police alongside other health, justice, and education data. Multinomial regression analyses were conducted to determine associations between increasing levels of CPS involvement and police contact as a victim only, a person of interest only, and as both victim and person of interest while accounting for covariates (i.e., child's sex, Aboriginal, and/or Torres Strait Islander background, socioeconomic status, maternal age at child's birth, and parental offending history). Children exposed to any of the four levels of CPS involvement had higher odds of police contact, relative to children with no CPS involvement. Odds ratios were higher for contact with police as both a victim and a person of interest, compared to police contact as a victim or a person of interest only. These findings highlight that children with even unsubstantiated CPS reports (i.e., non-ROSH and unsubstantiated ROSH reports) are at heightened risk of police contact compared to children who are unknown to CPS, underlining the need to support all families in contact with CPS.

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Child AbuseChild Protective ServicesCrime VictimsPoliceAdolescentChildChild, PreschoolFemaleHumansInfantLongitudinal StudiesMaleNew South Waleschild abusecriminologyneglectphysical abuseprevention of child abuse

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PMID38254307
PMCPMC11071604
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