Economic Inequality and Child Protection
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ISPCAN Journal Club - Special Issue on The Rise of Economic Inequality & Its Consequences for Child Protection
Child Abuse and Neglect: The International Journal Special Issue
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Focus of this Training
Rising economic inequality is one of the defining features of our time. Considering the vast amount of social science devoted to understanding the causes and consequences of rising economic inequality, it is surprising that so little research has considered the extent to which economic inequality shapes child maltreatment. This special issue on the rise of economic inequality and its consequences for child protection aims to address this gap with 8 scholarly papers.
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Recording - The Rise of Economic Inequality & Its Consequences for Child Protection
Journal Club Date:
January 10, 2023
Region:
Global
Topics:
Featured Journal Articles:
On the Relationship Between Economic Inequality and Child Maltreatment: Takeaways from the Special Issue and Future Directions
Associations Between Childhood Maltreatment and Educational, Health and Economic Outcomes among Middle-aged Chinese: The Moderating Role of Relative Poverty
Geography of Mobility and Parenting Behavior in Low-income Families
Growing up Unequal: Objective and Subjective Economic Disparities and Authoritarian Parenting
Economic Instability and Child Maltreatment Risk: Evidence from State Administrative Data
The Power of the Future: Intergenerational Income Mobility and Child Maltreatment in the United States
So Close yet so Different: Neighborhood Inequality and Child Maltreatment
Income Inequality and Child Maltreatment Rates in US counties, 2009–2018
Community Disadvantage, Family Socioeconomic Status, and Racial/Ethnic Differences in Maltreatment Reporting Risk During Infancy
Learning Objectives:
Research Methodologies
While focusing on inequality and its association with child maltreatment, studies in the special issue apply an increased level of methodological rigor by including some dimension of time or longitudinal design. Further, the unit of analysis varies across the papers with three major types of studies:
(1) Individuals, caregivers and families
(2) County level data
(3) Cross-level interactions between children and family caregivers within their environment.
Together, they offer a multilayered perspective on the processes that underlie the relationship between rising economic inequality and child maltreatment.
Presented By:
Andreas Jud, PhD
Professor, Ulm University Clinic of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, ISPCAN Distinguished Advisory Council
After completing his postdoctoral fellowship at the CRCF, Dr Andreas Jud joined the School of Social Work at Lucerne University of Applied Sciences in Switzerland. He is a principle investigator in a number of research projects on service provision to maltreated children and decision-making in child protection. A recent achievement is his international toolkit on mapping legal, health and social services responses to child maltreatment published by the World Health Organization.
David Rothwell, MSW, PhD
Barbara E. Knudson Chair in Family Policy at Oregon State University
David researches and teaches about children and families with a focus on poverty, economic inequality and social policy. His current research examines (1) family leave and self-sufficiency, (2) poverty measurement and safety net participation, and (3) policies that affect financial capability and asset building. At Oregon State, he leads the Family Policy Group and is a faculty member of the Centre for Children and Families at McGill University and faculty associate at the Center for Social Development at Washington University in St. Louis
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