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ANALYSIS OF CHARACTERISTICS OF INCIDENTS OF CHILD ABUSE CASES REGISTERED IN SOCIAL CARE CENTRES

Jelena Ogresta orcid.org/0000-0001-5235-3180 ; Pravni fakultet Sveučilišta u Zagrebu, Studijski centar scoijalnog rada, Zagreb, Hrvatska
Ivan Rimac orcid.org/0000-0003-4022-5856 ; Pravni fakultet Sveučilišta u Zagrebu, Studijski centar scoijalnog rada, Zagreb, Hrvatska
Marina Ajduković orcid.org/0000-0002-0561-9908 ; Pravni fakultet Sveučilišta u Zagrebu, Studijski centar scoijalnog rada, Zagreb, Hrvatska
Lea Skokandić orcid.org/0000-0003-0888-3621 ; Pravni fakultet Sveučilišta u Zagrebu, Studijski centar scoijalnog rada, Zagreb, Hrvatska

Sažetak

Quality data and efficient monitoring of cases of child abuse are essential tools for planning implementation of general and specific children-related policies. This paper analyses quality of the existing system of monitoring reported incidents of child abuse in the social care system in relation to its relevance, clarity and sensitivity to specificities of individual cases taking into account international guidelines, and registering and documenting standards stipulated by Croatian regulations. The research was conducted within the international project BECAN. The population consisted of reported incidents of child abuse aged 11-16 registered in social care centres in 2010. Two-stage probability sample of 368 registered incidents of violence on children in 37 social care centres was used. The analysis was based on data collected by two extraction forms, whereby the first one referred to the characteristics of the incident of family abuse of children, and the second reported dynamics and interventions implemented by relevant institutions.
The analysis revealed that social care centres fail to systematically register a series of important data. As far as perpetrators’ characteristics are concerned, the documentation fails to systematically register the following data: level of education, alcohol and drug abuse, previous reports of similar behaviour (these data are not available for 35%-90% of perpetrators). As far as children are concerned, documentation fails to systematically register data on education-related problems, health (including mental health) problems, behaviour problems, previous abuse (these data are not available for 45%-60% of children). Special attention is given to the fact that previous abuse was registered among 35% of children from the sample and a critical analysis of the efficiency of undertaken interventions was provided.
Based on the analysed data and Guidelines on Data Collection and Monitoring Systems on Child Abuse (ChildONEurope, 2009) the final section of the paper elaborates on how to establish a good information system on child abuse and how to improve the managing social care centres’ documentation in the field of violence on children.

Ključne riječi

reported incidents of violence on children; system of collecting and monitoring child abuse; social care centres

Hrčak ID:

97898

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/97898

Datum izdavanja:

6.2.2013.

Podaci na drugim jezicima: hrvatski

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