Dataset on Psychosocial Risk Factors in Cases of Fatal and Near-Fatal Physical Child Abuse

Authors

Mary Clyde Pierce, University of Louisville
Kim Kaczor, University of Louisville
Deborah Acker, Commonwealth of Kentucky
Tina Webb, Commonwealth of Kentucky
Allen Brenzel, University of KentuckyFollow
Douglas J. Lorenz, University of Louisville
Audrey Young, Northwestern University
Richard Thompson, Juvenile Protective Association

Abstract

This article presents the psychosocial risk factors identified in the cases of 20 children less than four years of age who were victims of fatal or near-fatal physical abuse during a 12 month period in the Commonwealth of Kentucky. These data are related to the article “History, injury, and psychosocial risk factor commonalities among cases of fatal and near-fatal physical child abuse” (Pierce et al., 2017) [1].

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

7-11-2017

Notes/Citation Information

Published in Data in Brief, v. 14, p. 107-109.

© 2017 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Inc.

This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dib.2017.07.003

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Repository Citation

Pierce, Mary Clyde; Kaczor, Kim; Acker, Deborah; Webb, Tina; Brenzel, Allen; Lorenz, Douglas J.; Young, Audrey; and Thompson, Richard, "Dataset on Psychosocial Risk Factors in Cases of Fatal and Near-Fatal Physical Child Abuse" (2017). Psychiatry Faculty Publications. 49.
https://uknowledge.uky.edu/psychiatry_facpub/49