TY - JOUR
T1 - Service Referral Patterns Among Black and White Families Involved With Child Protective Services
AU - Font, Sarah A.
N1 - Funding Information:
Received: 09/17/12; revised: 05/02/13; accepted: 06/18/13 Thank you to Drs. Lawrence M. Berger and Kristen S. Slack for their guidance and assistance in the completion of this article. This research was supported by funding from the Institute for Research on Poverty and the Waisman Center (NICHD grant number P30 HD03352) at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Address correspondence to Sarah A. Font, University of Wisconsin-Madison, School of Social Work, 1350 University Avenue, Madison, WI 53706, USA. E-mail: [email protected]
PY - 2013/9
Y1 - 2013/9
N2 - Racial disproportionality in child protective services is widely studied, yet the role of race in caseworkers' service referral decisions remains less understood. Using the National Survey of Child and Adolescent Well-Being II, multiple regression models and Blinder-Oaxaca decompositions assess whether the intersection of caseworker and child race predicts differences in service referral decisions, and whether service disparities were primarily explained by racial differences in case characteristics or by differential treatment of families. While many raw differences in service referrals were explained by case characteristics, unexplained differences were found in the types of services to which families were referred.
AB - Racial disproportionality in child protective services is widely studied, yet the role of race in caseworkers' service referral decisions remains less understood. Using the National Survey of Child and Adolescent Well-Being II, multiple regression models and Blinder-Oaxaca decompositions assess whether the intersection of caseworker and child race predicts differences in service referral decisions, and whether service disparities were primarily explained by racial differences in case characteristics or by differential treatment of families. While many raw differences in service referrals were explained by case characteristics, unexplained differences were found in the types of services to which families were referred.
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U2 - 10.1080/15548732.2013.818087
DO - 10.1080/15548732.2013.818087
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84884305662
SN - 1554-8732
VL - 7
SP - 370
EP - 391
JO - Journal of Public Child Welfare
JF - Journal of Public Child Welfare
IS - 4
ER -