Child Maltreatment
Child Protection | Child Protection | Children, Adolescents and Interpersonal Violence (General)
The most current and authoritative resource in the vital and changing field of child abuse and neglect...
An Interdisciplinary Forum
Child Maltreatment answers the urgent need for an interdisciplinary forum disseminating original research, information and technical innovations on child abuse and neglect. The field of child maltreatment is multidisciplinary, embracing diverse professional and cultural identities. Peer-reviewed and written by leading experts, Child Maltreatment provides common ground for practitioners, policy makers and researchers from a variety of disciplines. The journal creates an important synthesis of contributions in science, theory, practice and policy issues. Fields represented include: Law, Social Work, Law Enforcement, Child Protection, Medicine, Psychology, Research, and Prevention.
Accessible and Comprehensive Policy
High quality, original research in the field of child abuse and neglect can have immediate impact on the quality of children’s lives. Child Maltreatment is committed to promoting practice and policy perspectives that are based on the best available empirical scientific evidence.
Special Sections
Occasionally, Child Maltreatment features regular Special Sections and Special Issues dedicated to original research and practice articles dealing with specific topics of pressing concern to the child abuse community. These offer readers broad coverage of focused topics, and present new research and commentary from some of the field's foremost researchers and thinkers.
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Child Maltreatment fills an important gap in research literature and makes a valuable addition to your library’s criminology, psychology, social work or law collection. Free sample copies are available to librarians on request.
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Child Maltreatment is the official journal of the American Professional Society on the Abuse of Children (APSAC), the nation's largest interdisciplinary child maltreatment professional organization. Child Maltreatment's objective is to foster professional excellence in the field of child abuse and neglect by reporting current and at-issue scientific information and technical innovations in a form immediately useful to practitioners and researchers from mental health, child protection, law, law enforcement, medicine, nursing, and allied disciplines. Child Maltreatment emphasizes perspectives with a rigorous scientific base that are relevant to policy, practice, and research. As a publication of APSAC, we are committed to eliminating racism and implicit bias. We seek to enable people from all backgrounds to contribute to and benefit from research that is balanced, grounded, anti-racist, and promotes a more just society.
| Vincent J. Palusci | New York University, USA |
| Mark Chaffin | Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA, USA |
| Gia E. Barboza-Salerno | University of Colorado, Colorado Springs, USA |
| Rochelle Hanson | Medical University of South Carolina, USA |
| Kathryn Maguire-Jack | University of Michigan, USA |
| Kristin Valentino | University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN, USA |
| Lenneke Alink | Leiden University, Netherlands |
| Douglas Barnett | Wayne State University, USA |
| Stephanie D. Block | University of Massachusetts, Lowell, USA |
| Ernestine Briggs | Duke University, USA |
| Derek S. Brown | Washington University in St. Louis, USA |
| Elissa J. Brown | St. John's University - NY, USA |
| Mark Chaffine | Georgia State University, USA |
| Catherine Corr | University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA |
| Theodore P. Cross | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA |
| Angela Crossman | John Jay College - CUNY |
| Amy Damashek | Western Michigan University, USA |
| Carla Kmett Danielson | Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC, USA |
| Chris Derauf | Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and Science, USA |
| David DiLillo | University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA |
| Louise Dixon | Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand |
| Mary Dozier | University of Delaware, USA |
| Howard Dubowitz | University of Maryland, USA |
| Amy Dworsky | Chapin Hall at the University of Chicago, USA |
| Candice Feiring | The College of New Jersey, Ewing, NJ, USA |
| David Finkelhor | University of New Hampshire, USA |
| Julian Ford | University of Connecticut, USA |
| Bridget Freisthler | The Ohio State University, USA |
| Andrea Gonzalez | McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada |
| Damion Grasso | University of Connecticut, New Hartford, CT, USA |
| Kate Guastaferro | Pennsylvania State University, USA |
| Neil B. Guterman | New York University, Silver School of Social Work |
| Jesse J. Helton | St. Louis University, USA |
| Daryl Higgins | Institute of Child Protection Studes, Australian Catholic University, Australia |
| Canan Karatekin | University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA |
| Julia M. Kobulsky | Temple University, USA |
| David J. Kolko | University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, USA |
| Shawna Lee | University of Michigan, USA |
| Oliver Lindhiem | University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA |
| Thomas McMahon | Yale University, USA |
| Darcey Merritt | New York University, USA |
| Joshua P. Mersky | University of Illinois-Chicago, USA |
| Steven Ondersma | Wayne State University, USA |
| Assaf Oshri | University of Georgia, USA |
| Jodi Quas | University of California, Irvine, USA |
| Ramesh Raghavan | Rutgers University, USA |
| Christina Rodriguez | University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA |
| Joseph P. Ryan | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA |
| Shannon Self-Brown | Georgia State University, USA |
| Chad Shenk | The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA |
| Jane F. Silovsky | University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Centre, USA |
| Valerie Simon | Wayne State University, USA |
| Jeff Snarr | SUNY, Brockport, NY, USA |
| Ashwini Tiwari | Augusta University, USA |
| Sheree L. Toth | University of Rochester, USA |
| Frank E. Vandervort | University of Michigan, USA |
| Daniel J. Whitaker, Ph.D. | Georgia State University - Atlanta, Georgia |
| Cathy Spatz Widom | John Jay College, City University of New York, USA |
| Natalie R. Beltrano | University of Windsor, Canada |
| Karissa A. DiMarzio | Florida International University, USA |
| Brett Greenfield | Rutgers University, USA |
| Jeesoo Jeon | Case Western Reserve University, USA |
| Amy H. Lee | Stony Brook University, USA |
| Elizabeth W. Perry | Georgia State University, USA |
| Doris F. Pu | University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA |
| Xutong Zhang | McMaster University, Canada |
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