Child Maltreatment: Can It Be Defined?

The Battered-Child Syndrome

1962 • 3,012 citations

Child abuse and neglect: The myth of classlessness.

1978 • 1,994 citations

Beyond the Best Interests of the Child

1974 • 836 citations

Defining child abuse

1979 • 408 citations

The Protection of Children: State Intervention and Family Life.

1986 • 316 citations

Helping the Battered Child and His Family

1973 • 259 citations

Making an Issue of Child Abuse: Political Agenda Setting for Social Problems.

1985 • 246 citations

Child Abuse and Neglect: Cross-Cultural Perspectives.

1984 • 194 citations

State Intervention on Behalf of "Neglected" Children: A Search for Realistic Standards

1975 • 143 citations

The impact of maltreatment on children's psychosocial adjustment: A review of the research

1985 • 136 citations

Damaged Parents: An Anatomy of Child Neglect

1981 • 118 citations

Making an Issue of Child Abuse: Political Agenda Setting for Social Problems

1986 • 72 citations

Problems, Solutions and Strategies: A Contribution to the Theory and Practice of Planning

1973 • 67 citations

Developmental considerations in the definition of child maltreatment

1981 • 54 citations

Preventing child abuse.

1975 • 53 citations

The Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act

1984 • 43 citations

Child Neglect Laws in America

1975 • 42 citations

Use of Authority in Direct Social Work Practice with Mandated Clients

1987 • 33 citations

A sociocultural perspective on physical child abuse.

1971 • 29 citations

The united states versus child abuse

1983 • 8 citations