Full Description
Interpersonal Violence Against Children and Youth uses empirical research to provide an overview of the risk factors, different types of violence against children and youth, their victimizations (online and offline), as well as prevention practices and strategies. Pulling together researchers, practitioners, and educators from around the world, this book addresses the various practices and efforts different countries use to protect children and prevent interpersonal violence. These forms of violence include parental or caregiver initiated, actions of peers, intimate partner-related, or that among strangers and are not limited to maltreatment, bullying, emotional strife, sexual assault, or homicidal violence. This book would be of interest to those studying criminology, criminal justice, sociology, social work, law, forensic pathology and others.
Contents
Part I: Threats of Interpersonal Violence in Everyday Life
Chapter 1: Parental Physical Abuse of Children: Characterization and Reverberations in multiple Forms of Interpersonal Violence by Christina M. Rodriguez
Chapter 2: Multiple Forms of Violence in the Lives of Youth Experiencing Homelessness: Risk Factors and Outcomes by Kimberly A. Tyler and Rachel M. Schmitz
Chapter 3: Teen Dating Violence: Results from a National Study in Portugal by Maria José Magalhães, Cátia Pontedeira, Camila Iglesias, Ana Guerreiro, Margarida Teixeira, and Ana Beires
Part II: Computer-related Interpersonal Violence
Chapter 4: Image-based Sexual Abuse Among Australian Youths: The Experiences and Perspectives of Victims, Perpetrators, and Bystanders by Adrian Scott, Chelsea J. Mainwaring, Asher Flynn, Anastasia Powell, and Nicola Henry
Chapter 5: Cyberbullying: Its Social and Psychological Harms Among Schoolers by Hyeyoung Lim and Hannarae Lee
Chapter 6: Technological-facilitated Crimes Against Children: The Scope of the Pr
