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Category : Abused children
Languages : en
Pages : 8
Book Description
The Cycle of Violence Revisited
Author: The Cycle of Violence Revisited
Author: Childhood Victimization
Author: David FinkelhorPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0195342852
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 243
Book Description
Children are the most criminally victimized segment of the population, and a substantial number face multiple, serious "poly-victimizations" during a single year. And despite the fact that the priority emphasis in academic research and government policy has traditionally gone to studying juvenile delinquents, children actually appear before authorities more frequently as victims than as offenders. But at the same time, the media and many advocates have failed to note the good news: rates of sexual abuse, child homicide, and many other forms of victimization declined dramatically after the mid-1990s, and some terribly feared forms of child victimization, like stereotypical stranger abduction, are remarkably uncommon. The considerable ignorance about the realities of child victimization can be chalked up to a field that is fragmented, understudied, and subjected to political demagoguery. In this persuasive book, David Finkelhor presents a comprehensive new vision to encompass the prevention, treatment, and study of juvenile victims, unifying conventional subdivisions like child molestation, child abuse, bullying, and exposure to community violence. Developmental victimology, his term for this integrated perspective, looks at child victimization across childhood's span and yields fascinating insights about how to categorize juvenile victimizations, how to think about risk and impact, and how victimization patterns change over the course of development. The book also provides a valuable new model of society's response to child victimization - what Finkelhor calls the Juvenile Victim Justice System - and a fresh way of thinking about barriers that victims and their families encounter when seeking help. These models will be very useful to anyone seeking to improve the way we try to help child victims. Crimes against children still happen far too often, but by proposing a new framework for thinking about the issue, Childhood Victimization opens a promising door to reducing its frequency and improving the response. Professionals, policymakers, and child advocates will find this paradigm-shifting book to be a valuable addition to their shelves.
National Institute of Justice Journal
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Category : Criminal justice, Administration of
Languages : en
Pages : 112
Book Description
The NIJ Publications Catalog
Author: National Institute of Justice (U.S.)Publisher:
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Category : Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
Cycle of sexual abuse : research inconclusive about whether child victims become adult abusers : report to the Chairman, Subcommittee on Crime, Committee on the Judiciary, House of Representatives
Author: Publisher: DIANE Publishing
ISBN: 1428979832
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 38
Book Description
Adolescent Violence
Author: Jeffrey FaganPublisher:
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Category : Adolescent psychopathology
Languages : en
Pages : 4
Book Description
The NIJ Publications Catalog
Author: National Institute of Justice (U.S.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Criminal justice, Administration of
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
World Report on Violence and Health
Author: World Health OrganizationPublisher: World Health Organization
ISBN: 9789241545617
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
This report is part of WHO's response to the 49th World Health Assembly held in 1996 which adopted a resolution declaring violence a major and growing public health problem across the world. It is aimed largely at researchers and practitioners including health care workers, social workers, educators and law enforcement officials.
Social Dynamics of Crime and Control
Author: Susanne KarstedtPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1847313140
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 283
Book Description
This book assembles essays by leading scholars in their fields of criminology and socio-legal studies. John Braithwaite, John Hagan, Jack Katz, Nicola Lacey, Michael Levi, Joan McCord, Dario Melossi, Steven Messner and Richard Rosenfeld explore new directions in contemporary theorising about the impact of social and cultural dynamics on crime and social control. These essays have in common that they transcend disciplinary boundaries by combining criminological and socio-legal perspectives; in so doing they bring fresh perspectives to the analysis of crime in market societies and in the global market place. The authors do not share the apocalyptic and dramatic predictions of rising crime rates, but are aware of the "double movement" of social change and the counteracting forces that emerge in its course. These essays promote an integrative perspective that bridges the gap between etiological criminology and a constructionist approach as well as between explanatory and normative theory.