Reserve Component

Preventive Impacts of Reliable Family Maltreatment Criteria

Objective: The U.S. Air Force recently implemented system-wide changes that both (a) clarified the criteria used to determine when family maltreatment has occurred and (b) made the process by which these decisions are made more consistent.

2011
Snarr, J. D.
Heyman, R. E
Slep, A. M. S.
Malik, J.

Preventive Impacts of Reliable Family Maltreatment Criteria

Air Force child and spouse maltreatment reports were utilized to examine how the implementation of revisions to maltreatment criteria influenced overall rates of substantiation and one-year recidivism.

2011
Snarr, J. D.
Heyman, R. E
Slep, A. M. S.
Malik, J.