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Journal Article

Citation

Dhooper SS, Royse DD, Wolfe LC. Child Abuse Negl. 1991; 15(1-2): 37-44.

Affiliation

College of Social Work, University of Kentucky, Lexington 40506-0027.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1991, Elsevier Publishing)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

2029670

Abstract

A statewide survey of adults revealed that they are well informed about some aspects of child abuse. They had a generally good intuitive understanding of the characteristics of abused children and child abusers, but a majority seemed to have a "deviance" perspective on child abuse. They considered abusers as abnormal and intractable. While three-quarters of the respondents were aware that they are obligated to report cases of child abuse to the authorities, one-fifth knew someone who had abused a child, but only a third of these actually reported the case.


Language: en

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