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040 _aAFVC
100 _aLawson, Deborah K.
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245 _aThe impact of mandatory reporting legislation on New Zealand secondary school students’ attitudes towards disclosure of child abuse
_cDeborah Lawson and Brian Niven
260 _bBrill Nijhoff,
_c2015
500 _aInternational Journal of Children’s Rights, 2015, 23: 491-528
520 _aFew studies have sought the views of children and young people in relation to child abuse reporting laws and policies, including mandatory reporting of child abuse. This study, sought to determine whether mandatory reporting legislation would have an impact on secondary school students’ attitudes towards: (a) disclosing abuse to a teacher or school counsellor; and (b) attending school, if they had been obviously physically abused. A stratified random sample of 466 secondary school students in two New Zealand provinces answered nine questions in response to an in-class written survey. Results indicated that the introduction of mandatory reporting legislation in New Zealand would deter secondary students from disclosing abuse to teachers and school counsellors. Further, the introduction of mandatory reporting laws might deter students from attending school if they had been obviously physically abused. (Authors' abstract). This article is based on research conducted as part of the first author’s PhD thesis, "Is mandatory reporting an appropriate child protection tool for adolescents?" (#4841) completed at the Faculty of Law, University of Otago, in 2009. Record #4840
650 _aADOLESCENTS
_943
650 _aATTITUDES
_970
650 _aDISCLOSURE
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650 _aMANDATORY REPORTING
_9355
650 _aSCHOOLS
_9515
650 _aYOUNG PEOPLE
_9660
651 4 _aNEW ZEALAND
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650 _9103
_aCHILD ABUSE
700 _aNiven, Brian
_95279
773 0 _tInternational Journal of Children’s Rights, 2015, 23: 491-528
830 _aInternational Journal of Children’s Rights
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856 _uhttp://booksandjournals.brillonline.com/content/journals/10.1163/15718182-02303007
_zAccess the abstract
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_cARTICLE
999 _c4840
_d4840