Full Description
Over 30 years ago, the United Nations developed the Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC), heralding the importance of protecting children from a range of human rights violations. Among these are the right to be free from abuse and neglect at the hands of parents or other caregivers, and the responsibility of states to devise a protective response. How nations conceptualize harm and even how they define childhood varies markedly across the globe. This Handbook describes and analyzes the ways in which 50 countries from every continent, except Antarctica, have devised measures for child protection emphasized in the UNCRC. The Handbook discusses the legislative responses, public administrative systems, and the social service networks that governments have put in place to secure the protection of children against maltreatment and exploitation. Synthesizing data from across the world, the authors suggest a global typology of child protection systems for understanding the diversity of service responses. The typology consists of five ideal types that have as their emphasis protection against an array of risks to childhood and that represent the focal point for government intervention in the lives of families. They include child exploitation protective systems, child deprivation protective systems, child maltreatment protective systems, child well-being protective systems, and child rights protective systems. The Handbook is a valuable resource for researchers, students, and policymakers attempting to craft thoughtful state responses to children's needs
Contents
Table of Contents
1 Child Protection Systems Across the World
Jill Duerr Berrick, Neil Gilbert and Marit Skivenes
Section I - Institutionalized
2 Child Protection in Australia and New Zealand: An Overview of Systems
Judith Cashmore and Nicola Taylor
3 The Austrian Child Welfare System: Moving Towards Professionalization and Participation
Katrin Kriz, Jenny Krutzinna and Peter Pantucek-Eisenbacher
4 Child Protection in Belgium: An Overview of the Systems
Johan Vanderfaeillie, Erik Van Dooren and Jessica Segers
5 Child Welfare in Canada
Nico Trocmé, Melanie Doucet, Barbara Fallon, Jennifer Nutton, and Tonino Esposito
6 The Child Protection Systems in Denmark and Norway
Anne-Dorthe Hestbæk, Marit Skivenes, Asgeir Falch-Eriksen, Idamarie Leth Svendsen and Elisabeth Backe-Hansen
7 Child Welfare and Child Protection Services in England
June Thoburn
8 Child Protection in Finland and Sweden
Ingrid Höjer and Tarja Pösö
9 Child Protection and Welfare in France
Flora Bolter
10 Child Protection and Welfare in Germany
Kay Biesel and Heinz Kindler
11 Child Protection and Welfare on the Island of Ireland: Irish Issues, Global Relevance
Kenneth Burns, John Devaney, Stephanie Holt and Gerry Marshall
12 Child Protection in Israel
Daphna Gross-Manos, Eran Melkman and Aya Almog-Zaken
13 Child Protection in Mediterranean Countries: Italy and Greece
Teresa Bertotti, Roberta T. Di Rosa, Charis Asimopoulos
14 A New Era for Child Protection in Japan
Shoko Tokunaga, Mitsuru Fukui, Misa Saigo and Saki Nagano
15 The Child Protection System in the Netherlands: Characteristics, Trends, and Evidence
Erik J. Knorth, Helen Bouma, Hans Grietens and Mónica López López
16 The Development of the Korean Child Protection System: Cultural Influences, Unique Challenges, and Policy Strategies
Yiyoon Chung and TJ Lah
17 Child Protection Systems in Spain
Sagrario Segado
18 Child Protection and Children's Services in Switzerland
Stefan Schnurr
19 Child Protection in the United States
Jennifer Lawson and Jill Duerr Berrick
Section II - Emerging
20 The Chilean Child Protection System
Carolina Muñoz-Guzman, Miguel Cillero Bruñol, Mariana Bernasconi
21 Czech Child Protection after 1989: Between Socialist Legacy and the European Call for Democratic Legitimacy
Victoria Shmidt
22 Child Protection Systems in Estonia and Latvia
Merle Linno and Judit Strömpl
23 Child Protection in Lithuania
Ilona Tamutiene, Dalija Snieskiene
24 Child Protection in Poland
Violetta Tanas
25 Child Protection in Portugal
Jorge Ferreira
26 Child Protection System in the Slovak Republic
Kvasnáková Lenka, Balogová Beáta
27 Child Protection in South Africa
Julia Sloth-Nielsen
28 Child Protection System in Uruguay
María del Luján González Tornaría and Delfina Miller
Section III - Nascent
29 Building the Child Protection System in Argentina
Carla Villata and Valeria Lobet
30 Child Protection Systems in Brazil
Diene Monique Carlos, Ailton de Souza Aragão, Eliana Mendes de Souza Teixeira Roque, Lygie Maria Pereira da Silva
31 Child Protection Policy and Service in China
Fang Zhao and Yanfeng Xu
32 Colombian Child Protection System
María Cristina Torrado P. and Ernesto Duran Strauch
33 Ecuador: Child Protection Systems
Verónica Jiménez Borja, Micaela Jiménez Borja, and Teresa Borja Álvarez
34 Child Protection in Egypt
Hmoud S. Olimat and Amal A. ElGama
35 Child Protection Systems in Ghana
Mavis Dako-Gyeke, Abigail Adubea Mills, and Doris Akyere Boateng
36 Child Protection System in India: An Overview
Sanjai Bhatt and Subhashree Sanyal
37 The Social Construction and Development of an Integrated Child Protection System: In Search of Core Templates in a Diversified and Decentralized Indonesia
Erna Dinata
38 Child Protection in Iran
Marzieh Takaffoli, Meroe Vameghi, Maliheh Arshi, Leila Ostadhashemi
39 Child Protection in Lebanon
Hoda Rizk
40 Children at Risk in Mexico: Issues, Policies, and Interventions
Martha Frías Armenta
41 Child Protection System in Nigeria
Chimezie Elekwachi
42 Protecting Children in the Philippines: A System Focused Overview of Policy and Practice
Steven Roche and Florence Flores-Pasos
43 Reforming Russia's Child Protection System: From Residential to Family Care
Meri Kulmala, Maija Jäppinen and Zhanna Chernova
44 Child Protection Systems in Uganda
Deogratias Yiga
45 Making Child Protection Systems Work for Children: Lessons from Zimbabwe
Mildred T. Mushunje
Conclusion
46 Child Protection Systems: A Global Typology
Jill Duerr Berrick, Neil Gilbert and Marit Skivenes
