COMMUNITY-LEVEL FACTORS AND CHILD MALTREATMENT RATES
COMMUNITY-LEVEL FACTORS AND CHILD MALTREATMENT RATES
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DOI：
10.1111/j.1467-8624.1995.tb00934.x
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发表时间：
1995-10-01
影响因子：
4.6
通讯作者：
CHOW, J
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作者：
COULTON, CJ;KORBIN, JE;CHOW, J
利用 177 个城市人口普查区的人口普查和行政机构数据，发现官方报告的儿童虐待率的变化与社区社会组织的结构性决定因素有关：经济和家庭资源、居住不稳定、家庭和年龄结构以及社区与集中贫困的地理接近程度。此外，儿童虐待率被发现与社区社会控制和组织崩溃的其他指标相互关联。这些其他指标同样受到邻里环境结构维度的影响。居住在贫困、每名成年居民子女数量过多、人口流动以及女性户主家庭集中的社区的儿童遭受虐待的风险最高。这一分析表明，虐待儿童只是社区社会组织的一种表现形式，其发生与助长其他城市问题的一些相同的潜在宏观社会条件有关。
Using census and administrative agency data for 177 urban census tracts, variation in rates of officially reported child maltreatment is found to be related to structural determinants of community social organization: economic and family resources, residential instability, household and age structure, and geographic proximity of neighborhoods to concentrated poverty. Furthermore, child maltreatment rates are found to be intercorrelated with other indicators of the breakdown of community social control and organization. These other indicators are similarly affected by the structural dimensions of neighborhood context. Children who live in neighborhoods that are characterized by poverty, excessive numbers of children per adult resident, population turnover, and the concentration of female-headed families are at highest risk of maltreatment. This analysis suggests that child maltreatment is but one manifestation of community social organization and that its occurrence is related to some of the same underlying macro-social conditions that foster other urban problems.