Format:
1 online resource
Edition:
First edition.
ISBN:
9781351248433
,
9781351248402
Content:
Preface : freedom from violence for all children / Gertrud Lenzer -- General introduction : violence against children : from a hidden phenomenon to a global concern / Marta Santos Pais, Special Representative of the Secretary-General on Violence against Children -- General and international dimensions of violence against children -- Violence against children : endemic, detrimental, preventable / Susan Hillis, James A. Mercy, Howard Kress, Alexander Butchart -- Inspire : using the best evidence to prevent violence against children / Alexander Butchart, Susan Hillis, Stephanie Burrows -- The global movement to end all corporal punishment of children / Joan E. Durant -- Confronting child exploitation : the optional protocols and the role of children's rights law / Jonathan Todres -- Violence against children in Africa / Sonia Vohito -- Violence against children in the Asia Pacific Region / Victor P. Karunan and Neelam Singh -- Current perspectives on violence against children in Europe / Kevin Lalor and Rosaleen McElvaney -- Violence against children in Latin America and the Caribbean / Sarah Bott, Alessandra C. Guedes, Constanza Hege, Jennifer Adams Mendoza -- Epigenetic and multigenerational impact of adversity / Frances A. Champagne -- Violence against children and the United States -- Violence against children in the United States / Jennifer Vanderminden -- The U.S. Department of Justice defending childhood initiative : advancing the cause of children exposed to violence / Phelan Wyrick and Dara Blachman-Demner -- The problem of corporal punishment and the solution of positive parenting in the United States / George W. Holden and Rose Ashraf -- The violence of child poverty in the United States / Marian Wright Edelman -- The violence of child homelessness in the United States / Patricia Julianelle and Irene Sauceda -- The urgent need to disrupt structural violence against children in American foster care / Ira Lustbader and Elissa Glucksman Hyne -- School to prison pipeline in the United States / Rosa K. Hirji -- Racial and ethnic disparities of children in the United States : pursuing equity and engaging structural racism in youth serving systems / James Bell -- Youth prison as a form of violence : an international human rights perspective / Vincent Schiraldi -- About the contributors -- Index.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781138563254
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781138563261
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9781138563254
Language:
English
DOI:
10.4324/9781351248433
