Explanations for the decline in child sexual abuse cases.
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2004
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Office of Justice Programs, Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention
Abstract
This Bulletin explores the strengths and weaknesses of six possible explanations for the decline
by using data from a number of different sources: aggregate data from the National Child Abuse
and Neglect Data System (NCANDS); detailed child protective service data from Illinois,
Minnesota, Oregon, and Pennsylvania; and self-report data from the National Crime
Victimization Survey (NCVS) and from schoolchildren in Minnesota. It provides substantially
more evidence about the decline than was available in a previous Bulletin on the same topic, The
Decline in Child Sexual Abuse Cases (Jones and Finkelhor, 2001).
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child sexual abuse, statistics, declining rates
Citation
Finkelhor, D., Jones, L., & United States. (2004). Explanations for the decline in child sexual abuse cases. Bulletin. Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Justice Programs, Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention.