Mandatory Reporting of Child Abuse in Nebraska
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Authors
Stuart, Donald
Issue Date
1975
Volume
8
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Journal Article
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INTRODUCTION|Efforts to cope with the child abuse problem are met at the out- set with immense practical difficulty. Just as governmental action necessarily depended on and followed awareness of the child abuse problem, corrective action necessarily awaits identification of individual abusers and their victims. The very fact that the general problem went unnoticed until a relatively recent date indicates that some combination of factors tends to keep the individual cases hidden. Therefore the essential objectives of any corrective system should be to identify and overcome factors that prevent public cooperation in uncovering abuse, and to erect as few new obstacles as possible. Legislative imposition of a duty to report, abrogation of various testimonial privileges, and immunization of the reporter from liability for statements made in a report have been the universal approaches to these objectives. Criminal penalties are prescribed in the statutes of some states, including Nebraska, as an incentive to compliance. Nebraska currently has two independent and overlapping reporting laws that specifically deal with child abuse...
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8 Creighton L. Rev. 791 (1974-1975)
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Creighton University School of Law