Research Catalog

Title

Overcoming child abuse : a window on a world problem / edited by Michael Freeman.

Publication

Aldershot, Hants, England ; Brookfield, VT, USA : Ashgate/Dartmouth, c2000.

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Additional Authors

Freeman, Michael D. A.

Description

viii, 375 p. : ill.; 22 cm.

Summary

This book contains essays on how child abuse is handled in countries all over the world. Each chapter has comprehensive outlines of the law and child protection agencies in a particular country. New understandings of what constitutes child abuse and cultural differences give rise to varying legal emphases and management techniques. By studying the various systems, this book reveals the importance of culture and structure in the committment to eradicate the problem.

Series Statement

Issues in law and society

Uniform Title

Issues in law and society

Subject

• Child Abuse > legislation & jurisprudence
• Child Welfare
• Child abuse > Cross-cultural studies
• Child abuse > Law and legislation > Cross-cultural studies
• Child welfare > Cross-cultural studies
• Cross-Cultural Comparison

Genre/Form

• Case Reports
• Cross-cultural studies

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• Child abuse: the search for a solution / Michael Freeman -- Child protection law in Australia / Patrick Parkinson -- Child abuse: the Bulgarian case / Velina Todorova -- Maltreatment of children in Chile / Ines Pardo de Carvallo -- Abused and neglected children in the Republic of Croatia / Dijana Jakovac-Lozic -- The definition of, and legal and management responses to, the problem of child abuse in England and Wales / Christina Lyon -- Dealing with the problems of sexual abuse of children in Finland / Sirpa Taskinen -- Child abuse and the law in the Federal Republic of Germany: current situation and prospects / Stefan Heilmann and Ludwig Salgo.
• Child abuse in Hungary / Klára Kerezsi -- Taking stock of a revolution: child abuse and the law in Israel, 1989-97 / Tamar Morag -- Child abuse in Japan: the current situation and proposed legal changes / Yukiko Matsushima -- Child abuse and neglect: a Malaysian perspective / Zaleha Kamaruddin -- Protecting, reporting and supporting: child abuse and the assessment of risks in the Netherlands / H.E.M. Baartman and L. de Mey -- Child abuse in New Zealand / Bill Atkin -- Child abuse: the Nigerian perspective / Eunice Uzodike -- 'Let him take his wife': marriage, protection and exploitation of girls in Zimbabwe / Alice Armstrong.

ISBN

1855219824 (hardback)

LCCN

^^^99030102^

OCLC

41368304

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library