Finkelhor, D., Jones, L.2014-06-162014-06-162004Finkelhor, 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.http://www.ncjrs.gov/pdffiles1/ojjdp/199298.pdfhttp://hdl.handle.net/11212/1476This 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).en-USchild sexual abusestatisticsdeclining ratesArticle