Examining Racial Disproportionality in Child Protective Services Case Decisions.
Examining Racial Disproportionality in Child Protective Services Case Decisions.
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DOI：
10.1016/j.childyouth.2012.07.012
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发表时间：
2012-11-01
影响因子：
3.3
通讯作者：
Slack KS
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作者：
Font SA;Berger LM;Slack KS
利用美国1,461项儿童保护服务(CPS)调查的全国样本，我们检查了黑人和白人家庭在个案工作者对儿童的风险和伤害评级以及案件被证实为虐待的可能性方面的差异。当黑人和白人CPS工作者进行调查时，我们使用差异中的方法来确定黑人和白人家庭的结果差距是否相等，并使用Blinder-Oaxaca分解方法来确定可归因于病例特征(风险因素)的差异与这些特征与种族结果之间的关联差异(差异治疗)的黑人-白人结果差异的部分。在调整了病例特征后，我们发现不同种族的儿童在结果上没有差异。与此同时，我们发现，相对于白人社会工作者，黑人社会工作者更有可能主观上认为黑人儿童比白人儿童受到伤害的风险更高，也更有可能证明黑人家庭存在虐待行为。分解结果表明，即使在考虑了社会工作者种族之后，黑人和白人儿童的结果差异也主要是由家庭和病例环境的差异而不是差别待遇来解释的。因此，我们的分析表明，与目前强调文化能力培训相比，针对不成比例地影响黑人家庭的虐待相关风险因素的干预措施，可能在减少CPS参与方面的种族差异方面具有更大的效用。
Using a national sample of 1,461 child protective services (CPS) investigations in the United States, we examine differences between black and white families with regard to caseworker ratings of risk and harm to the child, as well as the probability that a case is substantiated for maltreatment. We employ difference-in-difference methods to identify whether gaps in outcomes for black and white families are equivalent when black and white CPS workers conduct the investigation, and Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition methods to identify the portion of the black-white difference in outcomes that is attributable to differences in case characteristics (risk factors) versus differences in associations between these characteristics and the outcomes by race (differential treatment). We find no differences in outcomes by child race after adjusting for case characteristics. At the same time, we find that relative to white caseworkers, black caseworkers are more likely to rate black children at subjectively higher risk of harm than white children and are also more likely to substantiate black families for maltreatment. The decomposition results suggest that—even after accounting for caseworker race—differences in outcomes for black and white children are primarily explained by differences in family and case circumstances rather than differential treatment. Thus, our analyses suggest that interventions addressing maltreatment-related risk factors that disproportionately affect black families may have greater utility for reducing racial disparities in CPS involvement than current emphases on cultural competence training.
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