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This paper presents an agent-based model that simulates the dynamics of child maltreatment and child maltreatment prevention. The developed model follows the principles of complex systems science and explicitly models a community and its families with multi-level factors and interconnections across the social ecology. This makes it possible to experiment how different factors and prevention strategies can affect the rate of child maltreatment. We present the background of this work and give an overview of the agent-based model and show some simulation results.
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Hu, X., Puddy, R.W. (2010). An Agent-Based Model for Studying Child Maltreatment and Child Maltreatment Prevention. In: Chai, SK., Salerno, J.J., Mabry, P.L. (eds) Advances in Social Computing. SBP 2010. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 6007. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-12079-4_25
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