OP-ED: Reality of Child Crime Often Starts With Child Abuse, Neglect [JJIE.org]

Samantha Sangenito 5/12/154:00 AM

Every April marks another observation of Child Abuse Prevention Month and with it comes a national awareness campaign to prevent child abuse and to assist the victims.

Child abuse is such a horrific crime that the focus on identification and prevention often overshadows discussion of the connections between child welfare and juvenile justice systems. Many states operate child welfare service offices and probation departments as completely separate entities even though the correlation between child neglect and abuse and juvenile delinquency has been recognized since the 1970s. The systems may be separate but the caseloads are not.

[For more of this story, written by Goerge Timberlake, go to http://jjie.org/op-ed-reality-...buse-neglect/108710/]

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