Why Have Child Maltreatment and Child Victimization Declined

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Global Prevalence of Past-year Violence Against Children: A Systematic Review and Minimum Estimates (2016, background): “68 The integration of multisector approaches with ones that are also multi-stakeholder should accelerate progress, engaging governments, business, nongovernmental, and civil society organizations in the shared goal of caring for the world’s children.”
Updated Trends in Child Maltreatment, 2013. (2008, background): “…is currently no consensus in the child maltreatment field about why sexual abuse and physical abuse substantiations in particular have declined so considerably over the longer term, although a recent article and book suggest some possible factors (Finkelhor & Jones, 2006; Finkelhor, 2008).”
Child Abuse and Neglect in the UK Today (2011, background): “As discussed in Chapter 1 of this report, until relatively recently figures from the UK have shown a fall in registrations for physical and sexual abuse since the early 1990s; similar data from the US showed a major decline in rates of sexual and physical abuse between 1992 and 2004 (Finkelhor and J”
The characteristics of sexual abuse in sport: A multidimensional scaling analysis of events described in media reports (2008, background): “In the US, for example, Finkelhor and Jones (2006) report that there has been a steady decline in reported sex offenses to children since 1993, which they attribute, in large measure, to improved prevention and reporting measures.”