Document Type
Book Chapter
Publication Date
2020
Abstract
Each year in the United States some four million children are reported to child protective services and hundreds of thousands of children are confirmed victims of maltreatment. This chapter provides a brief overview of the civil and criminal law’s response to child abuse and neglect. It summarizes the major federal statutes that provide funding to the states to support both civil and criminal law responses to maltreatment. It discusses the division of responsible for responding to child maltreatment between the federal and state governments (federalism). It also provides a summary of the constitutional framework for handling both civil and criminal child maltreatment cases.
Publication Information & Recommended Citation
Vandervort, Frank E. "The Law and Policy of Child Maltreatment." In Handbook of Interpersonal Violence and Abuse Across the Lifespan, edited by Robert Geffner, Jacquelyn W. White, L. Kevin Hamberger, Alan Rosenbaum, Viola Vaughan-Eden, and Victor I. Vieth, 1-22. 1st ed. New York: Springer International Publishing, 2020.
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