Protecting seriously mistreated children: time delays in a court sample.

Abstract:

:The study examined the progress through the child protective system of a sample of 206 severely abused and/or neglected children brought before the Boston Juvenile Court (BJC) on Care and Protection (C & P) petitions. Overall, children were in the system an average of 5 years from the filing of the first official report of mistreatment to the resolution of their cases. The families had been known to the state child protective service agency for an average of more than 2.5 years before the current court involvement. Once arraigned in juvenile court on the C & P, the average case took almost 1.5 years to reach a disposition. After disposition, children permanently removed from parental custody required, on average, an additional year and a half in Probate Court to reach a permanent placement. Of the more than twenty variables examined, including severity of mistreatment, protective service history, and parental mental illness, no meaningful pattern emerged which could predict delays. Our findings characterize the delays experienced by many abused and neglected children, and highlight the necessity of closer monitoring of the progress of cases through the protective and court systems.

journal_name

Child Abuse Negl

journal_title

Child abuse & neglect

authors

Bishop SJ,Murphy JM,Jellinek MS,Quinn SD,Poitrast JF

doi

10.1016/0145-2134(92)90063-w

keywords:

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

1992-07-01 00:00:00

pages

465-74

issue

4

eissn

0145-2134

issn

1873-7757

pii

0145-2134(92)90063-W

journal_volume

16

pub_type

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