Description
Child Abuse and Neglect: Forensic Issues in Evidence, Impact and Management provides an overview of all aspects of child abuse and neglect, approaching the topic. from several viewpoints. First, child abuse is considered from both victimization and offending perspectives, and although empirical scholarship informs much of the content, there is applied material from international experts and practitioners in the field—from policing, to child safety and intelligence. The content is presented to align with university semester timetables in three parts, including 1) Typologies, methods and platforms for abuse, 2) Impacts and prevention, and (3) Issues surrounding recognition and management of child abuse.This book fills a void in the available university-level classroom-targeted literature, promoting the inclusion of child abuse as a standalone subject within university curricula. As such, readership includes undergraduate and postgraduate students, teachers and wider scholarship, as well as practitioners; including those from psychology, criminology, criminal justice and law enforcement.- Presents an up-to-date approach that tackles child abuse from several viewpoints- Includes typologies, risk and protective factors, recognition, responses, biopsychosocial outcomes, public policy, prevention, institutional abuse, children and corrections, treatment and management, and myths and fallacies- Provides information on significant advances in knowledge areas, such as disclosure, the neurological effects of child abuse and neuroplasticity, and online and virtual child abuse
Table of Contents
Part 1 Types of Child Abuse1. Child Abuse: Types and Emergent Issues2. Intimate partner violence as a form of child abuse 3. Keeping our eye on sex, power, relationships and institutional contexts in preventing Institutional Child Sexual Abuse4. Online Child Sexual Abuse 5. Understanding Violent Extremism and Child Abuse: A Psychological Analysis6. Child trafficking: characteristics, complexities and challenge7. Gender comparisons of offenders: Males and females who sexually offend against childrenPart 2 Impact and Outcomes of Child Abuse8. Forensic Victimology Assessments in Child Abuse and Neglect Cases9. Cumulative Harm: Chronicity, Re-victimisation and Developmental Victimology10. The Pathological Consequences of Exposure to Domestic and Family Violence in Childhood 11. Physical punishment and offending in two successive generations 12. Physical discipline, child abuse and children's rights13. Understanding the nature and dimensions of child sexual abuse to inform its preventionPart 3 Management: Responding to Child Abuse 14. False Reports in Child Abuse and Neglect Cases 15. Mandatory Reporting: Managing Disclosure and Information Gathering16. Virtue Ethics and Good Professional Judgment in Statutory Child Protection17. Decision making guidelines for the child protection intake phase18. Eight Core Principles of Neurobiologically-Informed Interventions for Trauma form Childhood Maltreatment19. Understanding childhood maltreatment and subsequent re-victimization: A Singapore perspective20. Understanding child maltreatment across ethnic minority communities in Australia: physical abuse, neglect, witnessing domestic and family violence and child sexual abuse21. Child abuse and neglect and the judicial system: the limits of legal enterprise22. Public (mis)perceptions of sexual abusers of children and their implications thereof
