• Child Abuse and Neglect and the Burden of the COVID‐19 Pandemic on Families: A Series of Cases Consulted at the German Medical Child Protection Hotline 

  Heimann, T., Berthold, O., Clemens, V., Witt, A., & Fegert, J. M. (Child Abuse Review, 2021)

  In order to help evaluate arising problems concerning child maltreatment during the pandemic, this study presents three consultations of the Medical Child Protection Hotline in Germany (MCPH), a nationwide hotline ...
• The use of out-of-home and secure care in response to child sexual abuse/exploitation and trafficking 

  Peace, D. (Institute of Applied Social Research, 2021)

  This briefing shares findings from an international scoping review exploring the extent to which the practice of moving children into out-of-home care placements or secure accommodations is present in other child protection ...
• Post-implementation of a Safe Harbor law in the US: Review of state administrative data 

  Azzopardi, C. (Violence Against Women, 2021)

  Gender-based relations of power and attributions of blame for child sexual abuse have been longstanding in child welfare policy and practice. Nonoffending mothers continue to be ascribed responsibility through the ideologically ...
• Post-implementation of a Safe Harbor law in the US: Review of state administrative data 

  Cole; J., & Sprang, G. (Child Abuse & Neglect, 2020)

  Safe harbor laws have been implemented to change the way systems of care respond to juveniles exploited in commercial sex in the United States; however, there is little research on the way these laws have impacted the ...
• Objective and subjective experiences of child maltreatment and their relationships with psychopathology 

  Danese, A., & C. S. Widom, C.S. (National Institute of Justice, 2020)

  The study found that, even for severe cases of childhood maltreatment identified through court records, risk of psychopathology linked to objective measures was minimal in the absence of subjective reports. In contrast, ...

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