Criminal Justice: Children & Families

Child Maltreatment Annual Reports: Reports from the States to the National Child Abuse and Neglect Data Systems - National statistics on child abuse and neglect.

The annual KIDS COUNT Data Book profiles the status of children on a national and state-by-state basis and ranks states on 10 measures of well-being.

A resource since 1988, the National Data Archive on Child Abuse and Neglect (NDACAN) promotes scholarly exchange among researchers in the child maltreatment field. NDACAN acquires microdata from leading researchers and national data collection efforts and makes these datasets available to the research community for secondary analysis.

National Coalition Against Domestic Violence (NCADV) represents organizations and individuals that assist battered women and their children. The Child Advocacy Task Force deals with issues affecting children who witness violence at home or are themselves abused. It publishes the Bulletin, a quarterly newsletter.

The NNEDV is a social change organization representing state domestic violence coalitions. Its focus is legal and legislative action.

Established by the Pennsylvania Coalition Against Domestic Violence, the National Resource Center on Domestic Violence (NRC) focuses on civil and criminal justice issues, child protection and custody issues, and health care access for battered women and their children.

Statistics compiled by the National Institute of Justice