Mothers and fathers in the criminal justice system and children's child protective services involvement.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Parental criminal justice system (CJS) involvement is a marker for child protective services (CPS) involvement.

Objective

To document how parental criminal case processing affects children's CPS involvement.

Participants and setting

Participants included mothers and fathers with a serious criminal charge (mothers = 78,882; fathers = 165,070) and without any criminal charge (mothers = 962,963; fathers = 743,604) between 2008-2012. Statewide North Carolina records on court proceedings, births, CPS assessments/investigations, and foster care placements were used.

Methods

The observational unit was an individual's first charge date of a year. Outcomes were CPS assessment/investigation and foster care entry within six months and alternatively three years

SUBMITTER: Gifford EJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7672507 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature