Recent Publications

Maltreatment History and Weapon Carrying among Early Adolescents (Lewis et al., 2007) - This study examines the role of maltreatment in weapon carrying among 12-year-old youth. Participants reported their physical and sexual abuse history and provided responses to items assessing perceived need for a weapon and weapon carrying. Read more…

At-Risk and Maltreated Children Exposed to Intimate Partner Aggression/ Violence: What the Conflict Looks Like and Its Relationship to Child Outcomes (English et al., 2009) -This article explored the nature of IPAV in 554 homes where children were identified as at risk or reported for maltreatment and examined the differences between emotional and behavioral outcomes for children in homes where one or both intimate partners was the alleged perpetrator of IPAV. Read more...

LONGSCAN in the News

Dr. Desmond Runyan has headed the medical school's Department of Social Medicine and headed the state's system to evaluate abused and battered children. All the while, he treated the youngest patients shuttled into UNC-CH.

"It's such a privilege to be able to care for patients and their families," Runyan says. "Plus, I get to have stand-up comedians walk into my office. Kids have such charm and humor and spirit." Read more…		  

The second wave of the data archived with the National Center on Child Abuse and Neglect (NCCAN) includes data collected at the age 4, 6, 8, and 12 interviews, as well as data from the annual contact interviews. Measures included from the caregiver's report include: parenting behaviors; quality of the caregiver's relationship with her spouse or partner and family functioning; measures of depression, health, caregiver history of loss, separation, and victimization, life events, and services utilization. Measures pertaining to the child include the Batelle, behavior and development, cognitive and psychological functioning, maltreatment history, and life events.

The availability of these data for public use will benefit a wide range of researchers interested in child development and family processes and facilitate the growth in the body of knowledge for policy and practice of the family contexts underlying the development of children at risk. The National Data Archive on Child Abuse and Neglect (NDACAN) makes a restricted dataset available to members of the research community who meet eligibility criteria and agree to the requirements of the data license.

Summer Research Institute

Each year, the NDACAN sponsors a week-long Summer Research Institute at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York. Secondary analysis of the LONGSCAN archived data was the focus of this years Institute (2009). Participants were from a wide variety of disciplines and were selected on a competitive basis. The primary goals of the Institute were to increase utilization of the LONGSCAN archived data and to facilitate a medium-term secondary analysis project while providing participants an opportunity for networking and collaborating with each other.

During the Institute there were presentations by LONGSCAN investigators (these were made available through the NDACAN website), including discussions about the study’s research methodology, statistical approaches, secondary analysis results, and data management. Additionally, computing labs were made available to the participants for hands-on work with the LONGSCAN archived datasets.

Instruction was provided by the NDACAN staff, members of the Cornell faculty, and by the LONGSCAN investigators and staff. The expectation is that each participant's work would result in a conference paper, journal article, or other publication.

 
 
 
 

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