Abstract Background In 1996, the ISPCAN Working Group on Child Maltreatment Data
(ISPCAN-WGCMD) was established to provide an international forum in which individuals …

Over recent years there has been increasing interest in the extent to which child sexual
abuse (CSA) is associated with an increased risk for criminal offending generally, and …

This study sought to enhance knowledge of the link between child sexual abuse (CSA) and
long-term criminality by investigating gender-specific effects and the role of index sexual …

When compared to children from the general population, sexually abused children receive
more medical services, both for physical and mental health problems. However, possible …

It is perhaps surprising that we lack complete national information about why children enter
foster care. While the annual Adoption and Foster Care Analysis Reporting System …

Child welfare data collected for administrative purposes are often used as a source of
information for understanding the population impact of child abuse and neglect (CA/N). This …

Research with administrative records involves the challenge of limited information in any
single data source to answer policy-related questions. Record linkage provides researchers …

OBJECTIVES: To determine if children identified by a predictive risk model as at “high risk”
of maltreatment are also at elevated risk of injury and mortality in early childhood …

In this study we examined the consistency of life-course child maltreatment trajectories and
youth offending links across birth cohorts. In so doing we demonstrated the value of …

Background The use of full-population databases is under-explored to study the use, quality
and costs of end-of-life care. Using the case of Belgium, we explored:(1) which full …