Children as Victims
1st Edition
Published on 21. April 2008
Book
Paperback/Softback
192 pages
978-1-84445-136-4 (ISBN)
Description
This book highlights the problems, dilemmas and challenges facing the child protection agencies in England and Wales and tackles a variety of areas where knowledge on child abuse is either limited or out-of-date. Raising awareness of social, demographic, situational and environmental risk factors that may lead to the harming of children, it also looks at difficult cultural issues that sometimes get in the way of protecting children. Any professional working in, or studying, child protection will find this book an essential read.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Exeter
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Sage Publications Ltd
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 244 mm
Width: 170 mm
Thickness: 11 mm
Weight
345 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-84445-136-4 (9781844451364)
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Persons
Peter Kennison has been a practitioner and an academic for over 35 years. He joined the Metropolitan Police in 1970 and, after a career spanning more than two decades, he served on five police divisions in north and east London, the Police Training School at Hendon and in the Complaints Investigation Branch (CIB3) at New Scotland Yard.His operational experience brought him into contact with children who were often victims, while others were offenders. As an insider, Peter is perfectly placed to consider the legal, institutional and social aspects of child protection. His further interests include policing and community safety. Peter is a Senior Lecturer and Criminology undergraduate Programme Leader.
Professor Anthony Goodman has been a practitioner and an academic for over 30 years. His first post as a probation officer included responsibility for liaising with a hostel for unstable drug addicts. He developed a continuing interest in this client group and now runs a Masters applied criminology programme at Middlesex University and also teaches in social work.
Professor Anthony Goodman has been a practitioner and an academic for over 30 years. His first post as a probation officer included responsibility for liaising with a hostel for unstable drug addicts. He developed a continuing interest in this client group and now runs a Masters applied criminology programme at Middlesex University and also teaches in social work.
Content
Constructing childhood and child abuse
The wrong kind of victim? Children, young people and street crime
Parental use of alcohol and illicit drugs: A critical review of recent research
Making sense of sex offender abuse and the internet
Children as victims of crime
Child abuse in the religious context-the abuse of trust
Learning from mistakes -understanding police failure in child protection
Talking with children: constructing victim-hood or agency?
Child protection from a diverse inner-city primary school perspective
Minimising the risk to children and young people- the police response
Statutory social work processes involving children: prostitution and other areas of vulnerability
Concluding themes
The wrong kind of victim? Children, young people and street crime
Parental use of alcohol and illicit drugs: A critical review of recent research
Making sense of sex offender abuse and the internet
Children as victims of crime
Child abuse in the religious context-the abuse of trust
Learning from mistakes -understanding police failure in child protection
Talking with children: constructing victim-hood or agency?
Child protection from a diverse inner-city primary school perspective
Minimising the risk to children and young people- the police response
Statutory social work processes involving children: prostitution and other areas of vulnerability
Concluding themes