Child Maltreatment 1998: Reports From the States to the National Child Abuse and Neglect Data System

• NCJ Number: 184648
• Author(s): John Hedderson Ph.D.; John Fluke Ph.D.; Myles Edwards Ph.D.; Marian Bussey Ph.D.; Jeffrey Johnson; Ryan Mahon; Linda Ingram; Jim Pope
• Date Published: 1999
• Length: 150 pages
• Corporate Author: Walter R. McDonald and Associates, Inc.
• Sale Source: US Dept of Health and Human Services; NCJRS Photocopy Services; National Clearinghouse on Child Abuse and Neglect Information
• Publication Format: Document
• Publication Type: Statistics
• Language: English
• Country: United States of America

Annotation

This report on child maltreatment in 1998, based on reports from the States to the National Child Abuse and Neglect Data System, indicates that an estimated 903,000 children nationwide were victims of child maltreatment.

Abstract

Child protection service (CPS) agencies received an estimated 2.8 million referrals alleging child maltreatment. About one-third (34 percent) were screened out. Of the 66 percent of referrals that were screened in and investigated, nearly one-third (29.2 percent) resulted in a finding of substantiated or indicated maltreatment. More than half of all child victims of maltreatment (53.5 percent) were victims of neglect, 22.7 percent suffered physical abuse, and 11.5 percent suffered sexual abuse. Nationwide, an estimated 1,100 children died of maltreatment, a rate of approximately 1.6 deaths per 100,000 children in the general population. The report also provides national and State-level findings on preventive and post-investigative services, maltreatment perpetrators, and the average workload of CPS workers. Supplemental information is appended on child maltreatment by State. 4 tables and 14 figures