No. 6: How Do Caseworker Judgments Predict Substantiation of Child Maltreatment?
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چکیده
What constitutes evidence of child maltreatment varies from state to state: each state has its own definition of child maltreatment and its own evidentiary standard for determining child maltreatment. Some states count infants’ prenatal exposure to drugs as child maltreatment, for example, while others do not. Some states require a preponderance of the evidence for a case to be substantiated as child maltreatment, as in civil court cases, while other states have a standard of probable cause or other standards.
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