Author's Keywords: Key Words: child abuse, deviance, maternal infanticide, official statistics; social construction of reality	Convention Convention is an application service for managing large or small academic conferences, annual meetings, and other types of events! Submission - Custom fields, multiple submission types, tracks, audio visual, multiple upload formats, automatic conversion to pdf. Review - Peer Review, Bulk reviewer assignment, bulk emails, ranking, z-score statistics, and multiple worksheets! Reports - Many standard and custom reports generated while you wait. Print programs with participant indexes, event grids, and more! Scheduling - Flexible and convenient grid scheduling within rooms and buildings. Conflict checking and advanced filtering. Communication - Bulk email tools to help your administrators send reminders and responses. Use form letters, a message center, and much more! Management - Search tools, duplicate people management, editing tools, submission transfers, many tools to manage a variety of conference management headaches! Click here for more information.
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Johnson, Keith. "State Maternal Infanticide Determinations as a Product of Official Concern for Deviant Behavior" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association, Hilton San Francisco & Renaissance Parc 55 Hotel, San Francisco, CA,, Aug 14, 2004 <Not Available>. 2009-05-26 <http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p110069_index.html>

Johnson, K. R. , 2004-08-14 "State Maternal Infanticide Determinations as a Product of Official Concern for Deviant Behavior" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association, Hilton San Francisco & Renaissance Parc 55 Hotel, San Francisco, CA, Online <.PDF>. 2009-05-26 from http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p110069_index.html

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript Review Method: Peer Reviewed Abstract: ABSTRACT Child abuse and neglect definitions are so widely varied that official statistics are highly suspect. Infanticide and child homicide statistics have been thought to be an exception, but they too have serious limitations. Careful analysis of such indeterminate deaths as SIDS are studied by multidisciplinary teams to diminish undefined cases and increase those defined as infanticide or homicide. A comparison of states that had statewide child death teams in 1995 against those lacking such teams or with partial or local coverage shows that the states with zero rates of maternal infanticide are primarily those with no or local child death teams. Findings based on those data appear to be an artifact of the official generation of infanticide data, not a result of maternal behavior. They also support the long held suspicion of unreliability of official statistics of deviance and theories of their social construction independent from being measures of actual behavior.

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