Youth involved in both the child welfare and juvenile justice systems--a specific high-needs population--often experience a host of negative outcomes beyond those experienced by their peers involved in only one (or neither) system. These outcomes include higher rates of homelessness, mental health problems, and joblessness. These "dually…

Identifies the socioeconomic, demographic, and attitudinal correlates of neighborhood differences in the rate of child abuse and neglect, by comparing families in a high risk and a low risk neighborhood matched for socioeconomic level. (CM)

Variation in rates of officially reported child maltreatment in urban neighborhoods is 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…