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Abstract：
Research suggests children from non-White and Hispanic/Latinx communities are at higher risk for child maltreatment. This study identified in which states children from specific non-White communities were overrepresented in child protective services reports for child physical, sexual, and emotional/psychological abuse through exploratory mapping. Reports on child maltreatment originated from the 2018 National Child Abuse and Neglect Data System and state-level population estimates from the U.S. Census Bureau. Racial disparities were identified in states with unequal proportions of reported child maltreatment among a non-White child population compared to the proportion among the White child population. We found disparities for children from non-White communities in many states, especially for Black communities (Disparity Ratio [DR]: 15.10 for child physical abuse, DR: 12.77 for child sexual abuse in Washington DC, and DR: 5.25 for child emotional/psychological abuse in California). The ability to identify high disparities among Pacific Islanders highlights one of the study\'s strengths, given we separately examined Asian Americans, Pacific Islanders and multiracial communities. Results from our exploratory mapping provide insight into how preventive resources might be differentially allocated to non-White communities with higher child protective services reporting compared with White communities, and manifest states with multiple non-White communities overrepresented across maltreatment types.
摘要：
研究表明，来自非白人和西班牙裔/拉丁裔社区的儿童遭受儿童虐待的风险更高。这项研究确定了来自特定非白人社区的儿童在儿童身体保护服务报告中的比例过高，性,和情感/心理虐待通过探索性地图。关于虐待儿童的报告来自2018年国家虐待和忽视儿童数据系统和美国人口普查局的州级人口估计。与白人儿童人口比例相比，在非白人儿童人口中报告的儿童虐待比例不等的州中发现了种族差异。我们发现许多州的非白人社区儿童存在差异，特别是对于黑人社区(差异比[DR]：15.10儿童身体虐待，DR：12.77华盛顿特区儿童性虐待，和DR：5.25，用于加利福尼亚州的儿童情感/心理虐待）。识别太平洋岛民之间高度差异的能力突出了这项研究的优势之一，鉴于我们分别检查了亚裔美国人，太平洋岛民和多种族社区。我们探索性制图的结果提供了深入了解如何将预防资源分配给非白人社区，与白人社区相比，其儿童保护服务报告较高，并显示出多个非白人社区在虐待类型中的代表性过高的状态。
