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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Nov 25.
Published in final edited form as: Annu Rev Sociol. 2014 May 7;40:599–618. doi: 10.1146/annurev-soc-071913-043358

Figure 1. Flow of Children through Child Protective Services.

Figure 1

Note: Adapted from U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (2013:xi).

a All victim determinations refer to unique victims (meaning that each child could only be counted as a victim once). Referrals, response, and services all refer to duplicate children (meaning children could be counted more than once). Because of this, percentages calculated for Stage 3 and Stage 4 are approximations of the final share of the population included in these categories and are not equivalent to the number divided by 6.2 million.