Domestic Violence

Survivors of domestic assault and their advocates say Ernst's story is yet more evidence that domestic violence can happen to anyone.

DC education and health advocates, parents, students and others argue that something like a Marshall Plan is needed to deal with a crisis in childhood trauma.

The children who end up buried the deepest in the criminal justice system were often victims of extensive trauma before they played a part in killing others.

Prison inmates detail the crippling obstacles faced by many of the Jacksonville, Florida children involved in homicides.

This article and others forthcoming on this topic are being produced as part of a project for the University of Southern California Center for Health Journalism’s National Fellowship, in conjunction with the USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism.

In light of the November 7 mass shooting in Thousand Oaks, California, the Center for Health Journalism is sharing some past reporting and resources for reporters who find themselves covering tragedies such as this.

Why does Indiana have so many cases of child abuse and neglect? Only six states had more in 2016, and they all had much higher populations.

If rural America has become the new “inner city,” then nowhere is this more apparent than in educational systems.

"What I heard, over and over again, were stories of physical violence in juvenile residential programs."

A new reporting project will examine child abuse deaths and near-deaths over a five-year span to gain a better understanding of how poverty contributes to child abuse across Alabama.