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Article: Study Shows Child Abuse in High Income Countries Grossly Underreported; John Jay College Professor Widom's Findings Featured in The Lancet's Series on Child Maltreatment.
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- December 4, 2008
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Byline: John Jay College of Criminal Justice
NEW YORK, Dec. 4 (AScribe Newswire) -- Child maltreatment is far more common than suggested by official statistics of child protective agencies, according to "Burden and Consequences of Child Maltreatment in High Income Countries," a recent paper co-authored by Cathy Spatz Widom, Distinguished Professor of Psychology at John Jay College with Ruth Gilbert, Professor at the Evidence-based Child Health and MRC Centre of Epidemiology for Child Health, University College London Institute of Child Health, UK, and colleagues. This research, recently published in the British medical journal, The Lancet, was part of their ...