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Kathryn Maguire-Jack is affiliated with the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on child abuse and trauma, homelessness and social issues, intimate partner and family violence, child welfare and adoption, migration, health and trauma, child and adolescent psychosocial and emotional development, and health disparities and outcomes.

They have made significant contributions across several fields, particularly psychology, social sciences, and health professions. Their subfields of study include clinical psychology, general health professions, health, sociology and political science, and safety research.

Maguire-Jack has published extensively, with frequent publication venues including:

  • Child Abuse & Neglect
  • Child Maltreatment
  • Children
  • Child and Adolescent Social Work Journal
  • International Journal on Child Maltreatment Research Policy and Practice

Notable recent papers include:

  • A scoping review of economic supports for working parents: The relationship of TANF, child care subsidy, SNAP, and EITC to child maltreatment (2021, Aggression and Violent Behavior)
  • It's not "Just poverty": Educational, social, and economic functioning among young adults exposed to childhood neglect, abuse, and poverty (2020, Child Abuse & Neglect)
  • Child maltreatment in the time of the COVID-19 pandemic: A proposed global framework on research, policy and practice (2020, Child Abuse & Neglect)
  • The Scope, Nature, and Causes of Child Abuse and Neglect (2020, The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science)
  • Social Cohesion and Informal Social Control as Mediators Between Neighborhood Poverty and Child Maltreatment (2021, Child Maltreatment)

Their collaborative work includes frequent coauthors such as Olivia D. Chang, Susan Yoon, Katherine E. Marçal, Carmit Katz, and Yanghyun Park.

In addition to journal articles, they have contributed to book publications. Their book titled Neighborhoods, Communities and Child Maltreatment was published by Springer Nature (Netherlands) in 2022.

Best Publications

  • Adverse Childhood Experiences and Child Health Outcomes: Comparing Cumulative Risk and Latent Class Approaches.

    Paul J Lanier;Kathryn Maguire-Jack;Brianna Lombardi;Joseph Frey

  • Pathways from Childhood Abuse and Other Adversities to Adult Health Risks: The Role of Adult Socioeconomic Conditions

    Sarah A. Font;Kathryn Maguire-Jack

  • Investigating racial differences in clusters of adverse childhood experiences.

    Kathryn Maguire-Jack;Paul Lanier;Brianna Lombardi

  • The protective effect of neighborhood social cohesion in child abuse and neglect

    Kathryn Maguire-Jack;Kathryn Showalter

  • Geographic variation in racial disparities in child maltreatment: The influence of county poverty and population density.

    Kathryn Maguire-Jack;Paul Lanier;Michelle Johnson-Motoyama;Hannah Welch

  • Community and Individual Risk Factors for Physical Child Abuse and Child Neglect: Variations by Poverty Status:

    Kathryn Maguire-Jack;Sarah A. Font

  • Reprint of "Decision-making in child protective services: Influences at multiple levels of the social ecology".

    Sarah A. Font;Kathryn Maguire-Jack

  • Decision-making in child protective services: Influences at multiple levels of the social ecology.

    Sarah A. Font;Kathryn Maguire-Jack

  • Understanding the interplay between neighborhood structural factors, social processes, and alcohol outlets on child physical abuse

    Bridget Freisthler;Kathryn Maguire-Jack

  • Spanking and Child Development During the First 5 Years of Life

    Kathryn Maguire-Jack;Andrea N. Gromoske;Lawrence M. Berger

  • Community interaction and child maltreatment.

    Bomi Kim;Kathryn Maguire-Jack

  • Child protective services decision-making: The role of children's race and county factors.

    Kathryn Maguire-Jack;Sarah A. Font;Rebecca Dillard

  • Multilevel investigation into the community context of child maltreatment

    Kathryn Maguire-Jack

  • Single mothers in their communities: the mediating role of parenting stress and depression between social cohesion, social control and child maltreatment

    Sheila Barnhart;Kathryn Maguire-Jack

  • A scoping review of economic supports for working parents: The relationship of TANF, child care subsidy, SNAP, and EITC to child maltreatment

    Kathryn Maguire-Jack;Michelle Johnson-Motoyama;Sarah Parmenter

  • Intersections of individual and neighborhood disadvantage: Implications for child maltreatment

    Kathryn Maguire-Jack;Sarah A. Font

  • Academic engagement and performance: Estimating the impact of out-of-home care for maltreated children

    Sarah A. Font;Kathryn Maguire-Jack

  • Pathways from neighborhood to neglect: The mediating effects of social support and parenting stress

    Kathryn Maguire-Jack;Xiafei Wang

  • It's not "Just poverty": Educational, social, and economic functioning among young adults exposed to childhood neglect, abuse, and poverty.

    Sarah A. Font;Kathryn Maguire-Jack

  • Child maltreatment in the time of the COVID-19 pandemic: A proposed global framework on research, policy and practice.

    Carmit Katz;Sidnei R. Priolo Filho;Jill Korbin;Annie Bérubé

  • Parenting and proximity to social services: Lessons from Los Angeles County in the community context of child neglect

    Kathryn Maguire-Jack;Sacha Klein

Frequent Co-Authors

Lawrence M. Berger
Lawrence M. Berger University of Wisconsin–Madison
Chrystyna D. Kouros
Chrystyna D. Kouros Southern Methodist University
Enrique Gracia
Enrique Gracia University of Valencia
Judy Garber
Judy Garber Harvard University

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