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Abstract
Thinking Spatially About Child Abuse and Neglect
Track: Health and Human Services
Author(s): Bridgette Lery
ArcView 8.1 and 3.2a, demographic data, and administrative foster care data are used to map year 2000 incidence of foster care entry and poverty rates in 8 California counties by zip code. Results show a visually striking relationship between poverty and rates of foster care. Next, foster placements of children entering foster care in California in 2000 are geocoded
and mapped in relation to their removal neighborhoods. Distances between removal and placement addresses are calculated. Results show that large portions of children are placed outside of their neighborhoods and outside of
their home counties.
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Bridgette Lery
University of California, Berkeley
School of Social Welfare, Center for Social Services Research
120 Haviland Hall
#7400
Berkeley , CA 94720-7400
USA
Phone: 510-643-0839
E-mail: breego@uclink.berkeley.edu