This Article Full Text (PDF) References Alert me when this article is cited Alert me if a correction is posted Services Email this article to a friend Similar articles in this journal Alert me to new issues of the journal Add to Saved Citations Download to citation manager Request Permissions Request Reprints Add to My Marked Citations Citing Articles Citing Articles via HighWire Citing Articles via Google Scholar Google Scholar Articles by Maney, A.C. Articles by Kedem, B. Search for Related Content PubMed Articles by Maney, A.C. Articles by Kedem, B. Social Bookmarking                   What's this?

A Binary Time-Series Analysis of Domestic Child Homicide

On Monitoring Critical, Rare Criteria of System Performance

Mental Health Study Center, National Institute of Mental Health Adelphi, Maryland

Benjamin Kedem

University of Maryland

In this article we have sought to evaluate the significance of variations in the number of domestic child homicides and to do this in a way that facilitates the searchfor causes in a community's child protection system. Domestic child homicide is but one of many possible outcome measures, one seldom used and almost never related to other events in the system designed to protect children from such catastrophe. The study proposes a novel solution to the statistical problems associated with the evaluation of rare events. In doing so, it provides a tool for monitoring future incidence and initiating exploration of related systemic events that can be used in program management as well as in systems research.

CiteULike    Connotea    Del.icio.us    Digg    Reddit    Technorati    What's this?

This article has been cited by other articles:

				I. T. VAN PATTEN and T. W. BURKE Critical Incident Stress and the Child Homicide Investigator Homicide Studies, May 1, 2001; 5(2): 131 - 152. [Abstract] [PDF]