Description |
1 online resource (215 pages) |
Series |
Sociological Studies of Children and Youth Ser. ; v. 25 |
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Sociological Studies of Children and Youth Ser. ; v. 25
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Contents |
Cover; Victim, Perpetrator, or What Else? Generational and Gender Perspectives on Children, Youth, and Violence; Contents; About the Contributors; Introduction: Children and Violence -- A Blind Spot of Sociology; The Generational and Gender Bias in Approaching Violence; Sociology of Violence -- Peaceful Modernity?; A New Sociology of Violence as Emerging Field -- Beyond Generation; Victimology -- a Sidestep Towards the Child in the Name of Social Control; Our Direction: Violence and Generational Order; Contextualizing the Contributions; Perceptions and Definitions; Institutional Reactions |
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Conditions of Change -- Global, National, and Local ActorsReferences; PART I. Perceptions and Definitions; The Rhetorical Idiom of Unreason: On Labelling in Child Protection; Introduction; Child Protection as Social Problems Rhetoric; The German Child Protection System; Methods; Results; Rhetorical Irrelevance of Violence; The Irresponsible Mother and Her Limited Agency; Children: Ignored and Troubling; Deflection of Responsibility; Assignment of Causes; Conclusions; Acknowledgements; References; Appendix; The Perpetration of Fatal Child Maltreatment: It's the Men Who Are Bad, Right? |
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IntroductionChild Maltreatment Fatalities: Definitions, Prevalence Rates, and Government Responses; Victimization, Perpetration, and Risk Factors for Child Maltreatment Fatalities; Differences in Case Characteristics When Perpetrator is Mother's Male Partner; Misperceptions Among Professionals; Potential Reasons for Misperceptions Concerning Gender in the Perpetration of Child Maltreatment Fatalities; History and Culture in the Idealization of Women; The Intersecting Areas of Child Neglect and Accidents; Gender and Criminal Charges Filed in Cases of Maltreatment Fatalities; Implications |
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NotesReferences; The Definitions Are Legion: Academic Views and Practice Perspectives on Violence Against Children; Introduction; Conceptual Issues; The Configuration of Persons Implied: Victims and Perpetrators; Lack of Operationalization. Who Is a Child and Beyond; Perpetrators; Characteristics of Violent Acts and Omissions; Do Acts Have to be Malevolent?; Consent and Power Differentials; Neglecting the Neglect; Witnessing Intimate Partner Violence as a Separate Category?; Additional Forms of Violence Against Children; Thresholds |
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Applying Child Maltreatment Definitions in Swiss Child Protection PracticeLegal Threshold for Intervention; Variety of Frameworks; Lacking (Documentation of) Definitions; Difficulties in the Perception of Neglect and Psychological Maltreatment; Conclusion; Notes; References; Putting Definitions to Work: Reflections from the Canadian Domestic Homicide Prevention Initiative with Vulnerable Populations; Introduction; Approaches to Defining Domestic Homicide; Domestic Violence Death Review Committees; The Canadian Domestic Homicide Prevention Initiative with Vulnerable Populations (CDHPIVP) |
Summary |
This volume maps the ways that children and young people are considered victims or perpetrators by their societies and consequently the ways that their societies react. The chapters analyse a variety of phenomena in different countries of the Global North and South |
Notes |
Definition of Domestic Homicide |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
Notes |
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on January 23, 2020) |
Subject |
Abused children -- Social aspects
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Abused children -- Social conditions
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Child abuse -- Social aspects
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Victims of family violence -- Social conditions
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Family violence -- Social aspects
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Juvenile delinquency.
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Juvenile Delinquency
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Child abuse.
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Social Science -- Children's Studies.
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Child abuse -- Social aspects
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Family violence -- Social aspects
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Juvenile delinquency
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Form |
Electronic book
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Author |
Alberth, Lars., editor
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Doris Bühler-Niederberger., editor
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Loretta E. Bass., editor
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ISBN |
9781789733358 |
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1789733359 |
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1789733375 |
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9781789733372 |
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