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Collecting Child Victimization Information from Youth and Parents: Ethical and Methodological Considerations

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Collecting up-to-date and accurate information on children’s exposure to violence is critical to understanding this important source of risk, to track trends, and to inform public policy on how to protect and promote the health and well-being of young people. This chapter reviews literature addressing a variety of ethical and methodological considerations when conducting research on child victimization. Ethical considerations include the potential for harm to participants, strategies for reducing risk of participation, obtaining informed consent, issues of confidentiality and mandatory reporting, and the use of participant incentives. Methodological issues addressed include unit and item nonresponse and data quality, the potential for recall problems, survey mode and social desirability bias, and the use of parent proxy versus self-reports of victimization. Recommendations that emerge from this literature and the need for additional research are discussed.

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  1. Institute on Violence, Abuse and Trauma, Alliant International University, San Diego, CA, USA

    Robert Geffner

  2. School of Health and Human Sciences, University of North Carolina at Greensbo, Greensboro, NC, USA

    Jacquelyn W. White

  3. Dept of Family and Community Medicine, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI, USA

    L. Kevin Hamberger

  4. Department of Psychology, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, IL, USA

    Alan Rosenbaum

  5. Ethelyn R. Strong School of Social Work, Norfolk State University, Norfolk, VA, USA

    Viola Vaughan-Eden

  6. Education and Research, Zero Abuse Project, St. Paul, MN, USA

    Victor I. Vieth

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  1. Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Duke University, Durham, NC, USA

    Ernestine Briggs

  2. School of Social Work, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL, USA

    Javonda Williams

  3. Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Eastern Virginia Medical School/Children's Hospital of The King's Daughters, Norfolk, VA, USA

    Michelle Clayton

  4. New Orleans Child Advocacy Center, New Orleans, LA, USA

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  5. School of Social Work - PhD Program, Norfolk State University, Norfolk, VA, USA

    Viola Vaughan-Eden

  6. Owner/Principle Consultant & Trainer, Russell Consulting Specialists, LLc, Vancouver, Washington, USA

    Amy Russell

  7. Executive Director, Arthur D. Curtis Children's Justice Center http://www.clark.wa.gov/cjc

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Turner, H.A. (2020). Collecting Child Victimization Information from Youth and Parents: Ethical and Methodological Considerations. In: Geffner, R., White, J.W., Hamberger, L.K., Rosenbaum, A., Vaughan-Eden, V., Vieth, V.I. (eds) Handbook of Interpersonal Violence and Abuse Across the Lifespan. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-62122-7_170-1

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