II. Risk Factors for Physical Child Abuse
A. Demographic
Factors
1. age of parent
2. sex of parent
3. socioeconomic status of parent
4. sex of child
5. age of child
6. other child factors
B. Class and Community Values
C. Socialization
Experience of Parent
D. Psychopathic
States
E. Situational
Stress
1. Relations Between Parents Strained
2. Structural Stress in Family
3. Child-related Stress
III. Relationship Between the Criminal Justice System
and Child Protective Services
A. Goals
of CJS
B. Goals
of CPS
C. Legal
Processing of Child Abuse and Neglect Cases
1. Report Investigated by CPS or CJS or both
2. Authorities can take no action, warn, or remove child
from parents' custody
3. Dependency Hearing
4. Jurisdictional or Adjudicatory Hearing
5. Dispositional Hearing
6. Review Hearings