Assessing the feasibility of using actuarial risk assessment tool to identify risks in child protection cases

The problem: Risk and uncertainty are integral to child protection decisions because of the need to protect children from intrafamilial maltreatment, which is more common than abuse by strangers and occurs in the private sphere of the home. The problem of assessing intrafamilial risks to children fo...

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Main Author: Wood, Heather
Published: Bournemouth University 2011
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Online Access:http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.546669