Mandatory Reporting Laws and the Identification of Severe Child Abuse and Neglect

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xxv

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2. Historical and Current Context of Mandatory Reporting Laws

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Mandatory Reporting Laws: Their Origin, Nature, and Development over Time

      • Ben Mathews

      Pages 3-25

   3. Who Is Maltreated and How Mandated Reporting Might Help

      • Desmond K. Runyan

      Pages 27-31

   4. Competing Values and Evidence: How Do We Evaluate Mandated Reporting and CPS Response?

      • Brett Drake, Melissa Jonson-Reid

      Pages 33-60

   5. An Inter-reporter Analysis of Mandated Child Maltreatment Reporting in the USA

      • John E. Kesner, Bridget V. Dever

      Pages 61-75

   6. Privacy and Legal Duties to Warn About Unsafe Behaviors, Conditions, or Hazards: The Example of Child Abuse and Neglect Reporting

      • Donald C. Bross

      Pages 77-104

   7. The Historical Background for Mandatory Reporting Laws in Public Health

      • Edward P. Richards

      Pages 105-123

3. Theoretical/Ideological Debates and Issues

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 125-125

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   2. A Theoretical Framework for Designing and Evaluating Strategies to Identify Cases of Serious Child Abuse and Neglect

      • Ben Mathews

      Pages 127-156

   3. Ethics and the Identification and Response to Child Abuse and Neglect

      • Jacqueline J. Glover, Lisa M. Justis

      Pages 157-171

   4. Medical Perspectives: Bioethics/Ethics and the Duties of Medical Professionals and the Nature, Advantages, and Limits of Public Health Approaches

      • Donald Woodhouse

      Pages 173-191

   5. Economic Issues in the Community Response to Child Maltreatment

      • Leonie Segal

      Pages 193-216

4. Legal and Conceptual Debates/Issues

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 217-217

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   2. Neglect: Should There Be Mandatory Reporting?

      • Edward Goldson

      Pages 219-244

   3. Mandatory Reporting and the Difficulties Identifying and Responding to Risk of Severe Neglect: A Response Requiring a Rethink

      • Bob Lonne

      Pages 245-273

   4. The Sins of the (Irish) Fathers: Is Mandatory Reporting the Best Response?

      • Helen Buckley, Roni Buckley

      Pages 275-294

   5. Mandatory Reporting of Child Sexual Abuse by Religious Leaders

      • Patrick Parkinson

      Pages 295-308

5. Practical Issues and Challenges for Reporters

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 309-309

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   2. Practical Issues and Challenges for Physicians Reporting Suspected Child Maltreatment

      • Emalee Flaherty

      Pages 311-325

This book provides the first comprehensive international coverage of key issues in mandatory reporting of child abuse and neglect. The book draws on a collection of the foremost scholars in the field, as well as clinicians and practice-based experts, to explore the nature, history, impact and justifiability of mandatory reporting laws, their optimal form, legal and conceptual issues, and practical issues and challenges for reporters, professional educators and governments. Key issues in non-Western nations are also explored briefly to assess the potential of socio-legal responses sex trafficking, forced child labour and child marriage. The book is of particular value to policy makers, educators and opinion leaders in government departments dealing with children, and to professionals and organisations who work with children. It is also intended to be a key authority for researchers and teachers in the fields of medicine, nursing, social work, education, law, psychology, health and allied health fields.

• Child Abuse and neglect
• Early intervention
• Global issues and challenges
• Law, policy and practice
• Mandated Child Maltreatment reporting in the USA
• Mandatory reporting laws
• Mandatory reporting laws in public health
• Outcomes of reporting vhild maltreatment
• Sexual abuse by religious leaders

• Australian Centre for Health Law Research, Faculty of Law, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia

  Ben Mathews

• Program in Pediatric Law, Policy and Ethics, Kempe Center for the Prevention and Treatment of Child Abuse and Neglect, Aurora, USA

  Donald C. Bross

Ben Mathews, LLB, BA, PhD, is an Associate Professor in the School of Law at Queensland University of Technology in Brisbane, Australia. He is also Director of Research in the School of Law and is co-Leader of the Children’s Rights and Welfare research program in QUT’s Children and Youth Research Centre. His major area of research expertise is in children and the law, with a focus on issues concerning law and child maltreatment, civil damages for child abuse, children and educational systems, medico-legal issues, children’s rights, cultural violence against children, and children’s criminal responsibility. He has conducted large multidisciplinary studies of laws regarding the reporting of child maltreatment and has published extensively in Australia and internationally, with 45 publications. His research and knowledge translation has led to changes in law, policy and practice.

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