Child Protection Systems Across the World

The main objective of the project is to examine defining elements of child protection systems and their boundaries by analyzing public and judiciary perspectives across the world, enabling empirical advancements and theoretical innovations. This transdisciplinary endeavor will lay the foundation as a conceptual tool for comparative research on governments’ responsibilities to and for children in vulnerable situations.

CPS-WORLD combines innovative methodological approaches and cross-country examinations, applying several data sources and combining survey, vignettes, experiments and text analysis. The project is the most comprehensive cross-country study ever undertaken in this field. It is pioneering in its empirical and critical ambition to explain the decisive factors and mechanisms in child protection systems. The research team will conduct randomized survey experiments to generate unique data identifying possible causal mechanisms to explain differences in the normative foundation of child protection systems.

The findings will advance our understanding of child protection, and spark a new generation of researchers who will continue to empirically test the typology and its associated dimensions. Those efforts are likely to result in articulated understandings about family caregiving, children’s safety and well-being, and state roles in supporting both. The comparative basis will provide new opportunities for transdisciplinary, international studies and nation-specific research. The typology will further provide benchmarks for policymakers as they seek to craft policies that protect the rights of children, and provide a conceptual and theoretical frame to interpret and understand their within-nation system and orient their aspirations toward system characteristics that are appropriate for change.

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