Running head: Child Advocacy 2 The Child Advocacy Center Assignment
1. What was the overall purpose of the article?
According to the Evaluation of the Children’s Advocacy Center Model: Efficiency, Legal and Revictimization Outcomes, “The purpose of the article was to examine how CACs fare when compared to traditional methods of child protection. The CAC of interest for this study was developed in 1999 to improve system efficiency and arrest and prosecution rates for perpetrators of an increasing volume of child physical and sexual abuse cases in one county of central Florida.”
2. What specific population of people do most CAC’s serve? The Evaluation of the Children’s Advocacy Center Model noted, “The mission of CACs is to …show more content…
What were the limitations of the research cited by the authors?
According to the article, the limitations were as follows, “Missing data, the sample size was too small in regards to the legal outcomes. Thus, many cases were eliminated that involved a number of victims and perpetrators, which further served to decrease the generalizability of the study results to these types of child victims. Another limitation was the lack of independence between the CAC and CPT groups with regard to team members.”
5. What was the size of the sample used by the authors?
According to the authors, “184 child abuse and neglect cases from a large metropolitan area in Florida comprised the sample. Ages of the child victims ranged from birth to 18 years of age, with a mean age of 8-12 years
1. What was the overall purpose of the article?
According to the Evaluation of the Children’s Advocacy Center Model: Efficiency, Legal and Revictimization Outcomes, “The purpose of the article was to examine how CACs fare when compared to traditional methods of child protection. The CAC of interest for this study was developed in 1999 to improve system efficiency and arrest and prosecution rates for perpetrators of an increasing volume of child physical and sexual abuse cases in one county of central Florida.”
2. What specific population of people do most CAC’s serve? The Evaluation of the Children’s Advocacy Center Model noted, “The mission of CACs is to …show more content…
What were the limitations of the research cited by the authors?
According to the article, the limitations were as follows, “Missing data, the sample size was too small in regards to the legal outcomes. Thus, many cases were eliminated that involved a number of victims and perpetrators, which further served to decrease the generalizability of the study results to these types of child victims. Another limitation was the lack of independence between the CAC and CPT groups with regard to team members.”
5. What was the size of the sample used by the authors?
According to the authors, “184 child abuse and neglect cases from a large metropolitan area in Florida comprised the sample. Ages of the child victims ranged from birth to 18 years of age, with a mean age of 8-12 years