
Contents
Acknowledgments
1. Cross-Cutting Issues in Child Welfare
2. Coordinating Law Enforcement and Child Protection in Cases of Severe Child Maltreatment
3. Does the Criminal Justice System Force Children into Foster Care?
4. Hard Data on Hard Times: An Empirical Analysis of Maternal Incarceration, Foster Care, and Visitation
5. A Cohort Analysis of Early Adolescents in Foster Care
6. Youth Who Chronically Leave Foster Care without Permission: Why They Run, Where They Go, and What Can Be Done
7. Betwixt and Between: Status Offenders and Foster Care
8. Bridging Child Welfare and Juvenile Justice: Preventing the Unnecessary Detention of Foster Children
Timothy Ross and Dylan Conger
9. An Outcome Evaluation of Project Confirm
Dylan Conger and Timothy Ross
10. Solving Cross-Agency Challenges
Notes
References
About the Authors
Index