@article{ref1,
title="On racial disparities in child abuse reports: exploratory mapping the 2018 NCANDS",
journal="Child maltreatment",
year="2021",
author="Luken, Amanda and Nair, Reshmi and Fix, Rebecca L.",
volume="ePub",
number="ePub",
pages="ePub-ePub",
abstract="Research suggests children from non-White and Hispanic/Latinx communities are at higher risk for child maltreatment. This study identified in which states children from specific non-White communities were overrepresented in child protective services reports for child physical, sexual, and emotional/psychological abuse through exploratory mapping. Reports on child maltreatment originated from the 2018 National Child Abuse and Neglect Data System and state-level population estimates from the U.S. Census Bureau. Racial disparities were identified in states with unequal proportions of reported child maltreatment among a non-White child population compared to the proportion among the White child population. We found disparities for children from non-White communities in many states, especially for Black communities (Disparity Ratio [DR]: 15.10 for child physical abuse, DR: 12.77 for child sexual abuse in Washington DC, and DR: 5.25 for child emotional/psychological abuse in California). The ability to identify high disparities among Pacific Islanders highlights one of the study's strengths, given we separately examined Asian Americans, Pacific Islanders and multiracial communities. <br><br>RESULTS from our exploratory mapping provide insight into how preventive resources might be differentially allocated to non-White communities with higher child protective services reporting compared with White communities, and manifest states with multiple non-White communities overrepresented across maltreatment types.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1077-5595",
doi="10.1177/10775595211001926",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/10775595211001926"
}