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Child Maltreatment Risk Inventory: Pilot Data for the Cleveland Child Abuse Potential Scale
This article presents data on the development of a child maltreatment actuarial risk inventory, The Cleveland Child Abuse Potential Scale (C-CAPS). The study consisted of three groups in a juvenile court setting: child custody cases without indication of maltreatment (N034), cases where maltreatment was indicated (N037), and a third middle ground group of cases referred to the court’s Diagnostic
Clinic (N047). This third group of cases had not elevated to court involvement with a filing of child maltreatment. Study results provide compelling support for overall classification accuracy, with 100% specificity and 95% sensitivity and an overall hit rate of 98%, when only the maltreatment and
non-maltreatment groups were compared. Adding the third group of possible maltreatment cases dropped the overall hit rate to 71%. The instrument was able to correctly classify 85% of Non-Maltreatment cases and 76% of Maltreatment cases. The overall factor structure of the instrument is also reviewed.
Keywords Child maltreatment . Child abuse . Actuarial
assessment . Measurement . Risk assessment . Forensic
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