Sampling biases and implications for child abuse research.
The influence of sampling decisions on outcome in research on child abuse is examined. The extent to which the literature on child abuse reflects the problems of criterion-dependent biases and method-dependent biases is discussed and recommendations are made for minimizing sampling biases.
Widom
Cathy Spatz
CS
Department of Criminal Justice.
D002648:Child; D002649:Child Abuse / Q000523:psychology; D002650:Child Abuse, Sexual; D006801:Humans; D012106:Research