Understanding the Neighbourhood and Community Factors Associated with Child Maltreatment

Paul Bywaters

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-05858-6_17

Understanding the Neighbourhood and Community Factors Associated with Child Maltreatment

Paul Bywaters

School of Human and Health Sciences

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Abstract

This chapter highlights how population-based studies are essential to inform the provision of universal and secondary prevention programs to reduce maltreatment. Prevention strategies based on a public health model should integrate an inequalities perspective that identifies the complex factors which contribute to the over-representation of child abuse and neglect in particular groups. This approach is exemplified through a summary of UK-based research that used child protection data in combination with population and economic data to detail major disparities in child maltreatment reflected in high rates of substantiated maltreatment in impoverished communities. The research both underlines the potential benefits of population level study and illustrates the complexities involved. These arguments are then linked to recent work, mainly undertaken in the USA, examining patterns of neighbourhood and community factors that are associated with different types of maltreatment.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Re-Visioning Public Health Approaches for Protecting Children
Editors	Bob Lonne, Deb Scott, Daryl Higgins, Todd I. Herrenkohl
Place of Publication	Cham
Publisher	Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Chapter	17
Pages	269-286
Number of pages	18
ISBN (Electronic)	9783030058586
ISBN (Print)	9783030058579
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-05858-6_17
Publication status	Published - 7 May 2019

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Name	Child Maltreatment: Contemporary Issues in Research and Policy
Publisher	Springer
Volume	Volume 9
ISSN (Print)	2211-9701
ISSN (Electronic)	2211-971X

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Bywaters, P. (2019). Understanding the Neighbourhood and Community Factors Associated with Child Maltreatment. In B. Lonne, D. Scott, D. Higgins, & T. I. Herrenkohl (Eds.), Re-Visioning Public Health Approaches for Protecting Children (pp. 269-286). (Child Maltreatment: Contemporary Issues in Research and Policy; Vol. Volume 9). Springer Nature Switzerland AG. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-05858-6_17

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Bywaters P. Understanding the Neighbourhood and Community Factors Associated with Child Maltreatment. In Lonne B, Scott D, Higgins D, Herrenkohl TI, editors, Re-Visioning Public Health Approaches for Protecting Children. Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland AG. 2019. p. 269-286. (Child Maltreatment: Contemporary Issues in Research and Policy). Epub 2019 Apr 27. doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-05858-6_17

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