Child Advocacy Centers

Resource Category Topic Type
A Study of Trauma and Resiliency among Forensic Examiners Investigating Child Pornography
Funded by: The National Institution of Justice, award 2019-R2-CX-0034 The present study seeks to understand the impact and management of stress, burno...
 2019 Child Advocacy Centers, Impacts of Child Victimization Project
Research Partnership to Improve NH State Data on Abused and Neglected Children (NH PARCS)
The central aim of this project is to improve NH’s child protective service system's data collection, data management and data analytic capabilit...
 2005 Child Advocacy Centers, Statistics Project
Police reporting and professional help for child victims: A review
Finkelhor, D., Wolak, J., & Berliner, L. Child Maltreatment, 6(1): 17-30.
 2001 Child Advocacy Centers, NCAtrak Paper
Reporting Assaults Against Juveniles to the Police Barriers and Catalysts
Finkelhor, D. & Wolak, J. Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 18(2): 103-128.
 2003 Child Advocacy Centers, NCAtrak Paper
Survey of Police Reporting and Help Seeking Among Families of Child Physical and Sexual Assault Victims (Police Reporting Survey)
Most crimes with juvenile victims are not reported to the police, and most child victims do not receive victim services, but the reasons for this have...
 1999, 2000 Child Advocacy Centers, NCAtrak Project
Using Child Advocacy Center Tracking Data to Examine Criminal Disposition Times
Walsh, W.A., Jones, L. M. & Swiecicki, C.C. Journal of Child Sexual Abuse, 23 (1), 198-216.
 2014 Child Advocacy Centers, NCAtrak Paper
Criminal investigations of child abuse: The research behind “best practices.” Trauma, Violence, & Abuse
Jones, L. M., Cross, T. P., Walsh, W. A., & Simone, M.
 2005 Child Advocacy Centers, Multi-Site Evaluation of Children's Advocacy Centers (CACs) Paper
Which juvenile crime victims get mental health treatment?
Kopiec, K., Finkelhor, D., & Wolak, J. Child Abuse & Neglect. 28: 45–59.
 2004 Child Advocacy Centers, NCAtrak, General Child Victimization, Impacts of Child Victimization Paper
Do Children’s Advocacy Centers improve families’ experiences of child abuse investigations?
Jones, L.M., Cross, T. P., Walsh, W. A., and Simone, M. Child Abuse & Neglect, 31, 1069-1085. (CV 124)
 2007 Child Advocacy Centers Paper
Child forensic interviewing in children’s advocacy centers: Empirical data on a practice model?
Cross, T. P., Jones, L. M., Walsh, W. A., Simone, M., and Kolko D. Child Abuse & Neglect, 31, 1031-1052. (CV 108)
 2007 Child Advocacy Centers Paper