Neighborhoods, Communities and Child Maltreatment

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-viii

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2. Communities’ Essential Role in Protecting Children from Maltreatment

   • Carmit Katz, Kathryn Maguire-Jack

   Pages 1-7

3. The Spatio-temporal Epidemiology of Child Maltreatment: Using Bayesian Hierarchical Models to Assess Neighborhood Influences

   • Miriam Marco, Antonio López-Quílez, Enrique Gracia, Kathryn Maguire-Jack

   Pages 9-29

4. The Impact of Place-Based Services on Child Maltreatment: Evaluation Through Big Data Linkage and Analytics

   • Ilan Katz, Judy Rose, Samantha Low-Choy, Ross Homel

   Pages 31-49

5. Racism and the Racialization of U.S. Neighborhoods: Impacts on Child Maltreatment and Child Maltreatment Reporting

   • Kristen A. Berg, Claudia J. Coulton, Adam T. Perzynski

   Pages 51-64

6. Culture, Religion, and Spirituality in Understanding Child Maltreatment: Perceptions of Parents and Professionals in the Ultra-Orthodox Community

   • Yochay Nadan, Dafna Tener, Netanel Gemara, Nili Rozenfeld-Tzafar, Maggi Sharabani

   Pages 65-80

7. Structural Inequalities, Neighbourhoods and Protecting Children

   • Will Mason, Brid Featherstone, Paul Bywaters

   Pages 81-99

8. Measuring Informal Social Control in Child Maltreatment: From “Whether” to “How,” from One-Off to Sustained, from Individual to Community

   • Clifton R. Emery, Alhassan Abdullah

   Pages 101-116

9. Neighborhood Effects on Child Maltreatment in Rural Areas

   • Kathryn Maguire-Jack, Brooke Jespersen, Jill E. Korbin, Derek Van Berkel, James C. Spilsbury

   Pages 117-129

10. Community Interventions for Preventing Child Abuse and Neglect: Lessons for Expansion

    • Daphna Gross-Manos, Ayala Cohen

    Pages 131-153

11. Communities’ Lockdown and the Challenge of Keeping Children Safe: What Have We Learned from the COVID-19 Pandemic?

    • Carmit Katz, Noa Cohen

    Pages 155-171

12. Neighborhoods and Child Maltreatment: Looking to the Future

    • Kathryn Maguire-Jack, Carmit Katz

    Pages 173-178

This volume explores methods for studying child maltreatment in the context of neighborhoods and communities, given their importance in the lives of families. It discusses the ways in which neighborhoods have changed over time and how this that has impacted parenting in the modern context. It also highlights the ways in which policies have contributed to persistent poverty and inequality, which indirectly impacts child maltreatment. An important focus of this volume is to examine the multitude of ways in which the neighborhood context affects families, including structural factors like poverty, segregation, residential instability, and process factors like social cohesion. The volume takes a critical look at the ways in which culture and context affect maltreatment through a community-based approach, and uses this approach to understand child maltreatment in rural areas. The editors and contributors explore innovative prevention approaches and reflect on the future of this field interms of what remains unknown, how the information should be used to guide policy in the future, and how practitioners can best support parents while being mindful of the importance of context.

Addressing an important topic, this volume is of relevance and interest to a wide readership of scholars and students in the social and behavioral sciences, as well as to practitioners and policy makers working with neighborhoods and communities.    

• child maltreatment and neighborhoods
• child abuse and neglect and neighborhood
• culture and context in understanding child maltreatment
• residential instability
• community-based prevention efforts
• studying neighborhoods
• neighborhood interventions
• child maltreatment in rural areas
• structural characteristics of child maltreatment
• innovative approaches to preventing child maltreatment

• School of Social Work, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA

  Kathryn Maguire-Jack

• The Bob Shapell School of Social Work, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel

  Carmit Katz

​Kathryn Maguire-Jack, PhD, MSW, MPA is Associate Professor of Social Work at the University of Michigan. Her body of research focuses on understanding child maltreatment prevention through the lens of neighborhood and community contexts.  She has expertise in advanced statistical methods, program evaluation, and policy research.  She is a Doris Duke Fellow for the Promotion of Child Well-Being and a Kempe-Haruv Fellow.  Dr. Maguire-Jack is committed to conducting research that improves the lives of children. 
Carmit Katz, PhD, is an associate professor at the Bob Shapell School of Social Work at Tel Aviv University and the Director of Research of Haruv Institute. Dr Katz’s studies focus on child maltreatment. Dr Katz is the founder and director of the Israeli Independent Public Inquiry on Child Maltreatment, which spotlights transitional justice through changing policies.  During the COVID-19 pandemic, Dr Katz initiated the International Group of Scholars Protecting Children from Maltreatment During COVID-19, with ISPCAN support. Dr Katz is an Associate Editor of Child Abuse and Neglect and the Editor in Chief of the International Journal of Child Maltreatment. 

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