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The
Family and Delinquency
The Nuclear Family
The Changing American Family
Family Makeup
Child Care
Economic Stress
Children in Texas
The Family’s Influence on
Delinquency
Family Breakup
Broken Home
Blended Families
The Effects of Divorce
The Church and Divorce
Divorce Reconsidered
Boys
Girls
Family Conflict
Intrafamily Violence
Family Neglect
Inconsistent Discipline
Supervision
Resource Dilution
Family Deviance
Sibling Influences
Checkpoints
The family today is changing, and an
increasing number of children will not live with their birth parents during their entire
childhood.
Families are experiencing social and
economic stresses.
A number of factors shape the
family’s influence on delinquency.
Most experts believe that children whose
parents have divorced are at risk for delinquency.
Kids who group up in conflict-ridden
households are more likely to become delinquent.
Poor parent-child relations, including
inconsistent discipline, have been linked to delinquency.
Parents who commit crimes and use drug
are likely to have children who also do do.
If one sibling is delinquent, so are her
brothers and sisters.
Child Abuse and Neglect
Historical Foundation
Battered Child Syndrome
Defining Abuse and Neglect
Child Abuse
Neglect
Abandonment
Sexual Abuse
The Extent of Child Abuse
Monitoring Abuse
Who are Victims of Abuse?
Causes of Child Abuse and Neglect
Substance Abuse and Child Abuse
Stepparents and Abuse
Familicide
Social Class and Abuse
Focus on Preventing and Treating
Delinquency: Relationship Between Substance Abuse and Child Maltreatment
The Child
Protection system: Philosophy and Practice
Investigating and Reporting Abuse
Can spanking be abuse?
Michael Russell
The Process of State Intervention
Advisement Hearing
Pretrial Conference
Disposition
Disposition Hearing
Balancing-of-the-interest Approach
Review Hearings
The Abused Child in Court
Legal Issues
In-Court Statements
Disposition of Abuse and Neglect Cases
Abuse, Neglect, and Delinquency
Clinical Histories
Cohort Studies
Child Victims and Persistent Offending
Sexual Abuse
The Abuse-Delinquency Link
Checkpoints
Although the maltreatment of juveniles
has occurred throughout history, the concept of child abuse is relatively recent.
C. Henry Kempe first recognized battered
child syndrome.
We now recognize sexual, physical, and
emotional abuse, as well as neglect.
More than one million confirmed cases of
abuse occur each year.
The number of sexual abuse cases has
declined.
There are a number of suspected causes of
child abuse, including parental substance abuse, isolation, and a history of physical and
emotional abuse.
A child protection system has been
created to identify and try abuse cases.
The courts have made it easier for
children to testify in abuse cases, by using closed-circuit TV, for example.
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