Christopher J. Wildeman

Based at Duke University, Christopher J. Wildeman focuses their scholarly efforts on child welfare, incarceration, foster care, social inequality, family disruption, criminal justice, trauma, settler colonialism, bridging the gap between theory and practice in child welfare. A representative example of their recent contribution is the study titled "State-level variation in the cumulative prevalence of child welfare system contact, 2015–2019", which offers critical insights into the dynamics of child welfare and incarceration. Additional work such as "Introducing a new data resource for comparative child welfare research: The ROCKWOOL-Duke global child welfare database" further demonstrates their commitment to advancing knowledge in this domain.