Title

Attitudes Of Domestic Violence Shelter Workers Toward Mandated Reporter Laws: A Study Of Policy Support And Policy Impact

Keywords

Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act (CAPTA); Child protection; Child welfare; Domestic violence; Mandated reporter

Abstract

In order to examine attitudes in the field of domestic violence toward mandated reporter laws, a survey was administered to domestic violence shelter workers. The respondents overwhelmingly supported the mandate to report abuse of a child. However, a mandate to report child witnessing of domestic violence was opposed by a slight majority. When compared with the group opposing the mandate, the group in support perceived more frequent occurrence of a report's positive impact and less frequent occurrence of a report's negative impacts. These results have implications for advocacy efforts that are focused on mandated reporter laws.

Publication Date

2-27-2009

Publication Title

Journal of Policy Practice

Volume

8

Issue

1

Number of Pages

21-33

Document Type

Article

Personal Identifier

scopus

DOI Link

https://doi.org/10.1080/15588740802282367

Socpus ID

60749083226 (Scopus)

Source API URL

https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/60749083226

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