Reporting a Black Child's Situation to Protective Services: Differences in Decision Making by Caseworkers in Administrative Areas With Disproportionately High and Low Reports.

In both Canada and the United States, Black children are over‐represented among children reported to Child Protective Services (CPS). The biases of mandated reporters are thought to contribute to this over‐representation. Prior studies have rarely examined the relationship between the over‐represent...

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Published in:Child & Family Social Work Vol. 31; no. 2; pp. 713 - 724
Main Authors: Dufour, Sarah, Lavergne, Chantal, Pelletier‐Gagnon, Héloïse, Lord, Marjolaine
Format: research tables/charts Journal Article
Published: Wiley-Blackwell May2026
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