{"@type": "dcat:Dataset", "accessLevel": "public", "bureauCode": ["011:21"], "contactPoint": {"@type": "vcard:Contact", "fn": "Open Data Office of Justice Programs (USDOJ)", "hasEmail": "mailto:opendata@usdoj.gov"}, "dataQuality": false, "description": "This data collection examines the psychological impact of \r\n judicial processes on child sexual abuse victims. More specifically, it \r\n provides information on how sexual abuse and the subsequent judicial \r\n processes affect the mental health functioning of child victims by \r\n assessing the impact of (1) additional harm to victims from out-of-home \r\n placement, (2) criminal prosecution of the offender/family member, (3) \r\n subject testimony in juvenile or criminal court, and (4) family and \r\n professional support for the children. Children were enrolled in the \r\n study at the time that social services personnel substantiated claims \r\n of sexual abuse, and they were followed for a period of 18 months. \r\n Assessments of the mental health functioning of the children were made \r\n at the time of initial investigation, five months later, and 18 months \r\n later, using a combination of self-reports, parent and teacher reports, \r\n and psychological tests. After obtaining informed consent from the \r\n parent or guardian, each child was interviewed using a structured \r\n psychiatric inventory. The specific impacts of the various judicial \r\n processes or interventions under study were examined through \r\n comparisons of subgroups of the sample that did and did not experience \r\n particular interventions. The interventions included social services \r\n investigation, court process, foster placement, and psychological \r\n therapy. Other information in the file includes the type of sexual \r\n abuse experienced, judicial interventions the child experienced, and \r\n the child's level of depression, anxiety, and social adjustment. \r\nDemographic variables include age, sex, and race.", "distribution": [{"@type": "dcat:Distribution", "accessURL": "https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR09985.v1", "title": "Impact of the Court Process on Sexually Abused Children in North Carolina, 1983-1986"}], "identifier": "3150", "issued": "1993-05-13T00:00:00", "keyword": ["child abuse", "children", "criminal justice system", "intervention", "judicial process", "mental health", "psychological evaluation", "sexual abuse", "victims"], "language": ["eng"], "license": "http://www.usa.gov/publicdomain/label/1.0/", "modified": "1994-02-18T00:00:00", "programCode": ["011:060"], "publisher": {"@type": "org:Organization", "name": "National Institute of Justice", "subOrganizationOf": {"acronym": "OJP", "id": 22, "name": "Office of Justice Programs", "parentOrganization": {"acronym": "DOJ", "id": 10, "name": "Department of Justice"}, "parentOrganizationID": 10}}, "title": "Impact of the Court Process on Sexually Abused Children in North Carolina, 1983-1986"}