Explanations for the decline in child sexual abuse cases.

Date

2004

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Publisher

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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Keywords

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.

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