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A Study of Maltreated Children and Their Families in Juvenile Court. III . Case Plans
Author(s) -
Karatekin Canan,
Gehrman Richard,
Lawler Jamie
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
juvenile and family court journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.155
H-Index - 19
eISSN - 1755-6988
pISSN - 0161-7109
DOI - 10.1111/jfcj.12022
Subject(s) - compliance (psychology) , juvenile court , juvenile , plan (archaeology) , psychology , juvenile delinquency , medicine , developmental psychology , social psychology , geography , archaeology , biology , genetics
We reviewed publicly available court records of 88 cases referred to juvenile court for maltreatment in H ennepin C ounty, M innesota. The goal of the current study was to examine the content of, and extent of compliance with, case plans. There was an average of 9.5 items per child on the case plan. About half the case plans did not address at least one presenting maltreatment type. Compliance was generally high for items ordered for the children, and for cases that ended in family preservation. However, information on compliance was not included in the court records for many of the items.