Drake B, Zuravin S
George Washington Brown School of Social Work, Washington University, St. Louis, USA.
Am J Orthopsychiatry. 1998 Apr;68(2):295-304. doi: 10.1037/h0080338.
Data on the degree of class bias in child protective services databases are reviewed, along with recent empirical findings on the class distribution of child maltreatment. The evidence suggests high levels of child abuse and neglect among the poor and, despite debate on the question, there is no body of empirical data suggesting that these findings are a product of bias predisposing toward overestimates of child maltreatment among the poor. Implications for research, practice, and policy are offered.
回顾了儿童保护服务数据库中阶级偏见程度的数据，以及近期关于儿童虐待的阶级分布的实证研究结果。证据表明穷人中存在大量的儿童虐待和忽视现象，尽管对此问题存在争议，但没有实证数据表明这些结果是倾向于高估穷人中儿童虐待现象的偏见的产物。文章还提出了对研究、实践和政策的启示。
