title: Sampling biases and implications for child abuse research.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Department of Criminal Justice.
authors.forename: Cathy Spatz
authors.initials: CS
authors.lastname: Widom
mesh_terms: D002648:Child; D002649:Child Abuse / Q000523:psychology; D002650:Child Abuse, Sexual; D006801:Humans; D012106:Research