Child Abuse and Neglect: Forensic Issues in Evidence, Impact and Management

ISBN-13: 9780128153444 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 485 str.

Bryce, India

Spis treści

Part 1 Types of Child Abuse 1. Child Abuse: Types and Emergent Issues 2. 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 Abuse 4. Online Child Sexual Abuse 5. Understanding Violent Extremism and Child Abuse: A Psychological Analysis 6. Child trafficking: characteristics, complexities and challenge 7. Gender comparisons of offenders: Males and females who sexually offend against children

Part 2 Impact and Outcomes of Child Abuse 8. Forensic Victimology Assessments in Child Abuse and Neglect Cases 9. Cumulative Harm: Chronicity, Re-victimisation and Developmental Victimology 10. 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 rights 13. Understanding the nature and dimensions of child sexual abuse to inform its prevention

Part 3 Management: Responding to Child Abuse 14. False Reports in Child Abuse and Neglect Cases 15. Mandatory Reporting: Managing Disclosure and Information Gathering 16. Virtue Ethics and Good Professional Judgment in Statutory Child Protection 17. Decision making guidelines for the child protection intake phase 18. Eight Core Principles of Neurobiologically-Informed Interventions for Trauma form Childhood Maltreatment 19. Understanding childhood maltreatment and subsequent re-victimization: A Singapore perspective 20. Understanding child maltreatment across ethnic minority communities in Australia: physical abuse, neglect, witnessing domestic and family violence and child sexual abuse 21. Child abuse and neglect and the judicial system: the limits of legal enterprise 22. Public (mis)perceptions of sexual abusers of children and their implications thereof

O autorze

India Bryce is currently completing her PhD at the University of Southern Queensland, she also holds a Master of Social Work: Forensic Studies, Vocational Graduate Certificate: Community Service Practice (Client Assessment and Case Management), Vocational Graduate Certificate: Community Services Practice (Statutory Child Protection), Masters in Guidance and Counselling, and Bachelor of Education. India is currently a lecturer in Human Development, Wellbeing and Counselling at the University of Southern Queensland and has previously worked as a Child Safety Officer in the state of Queensland. Yolande Robinson's research focuses on improving outcomes for children and youth at risk in disadvantaged communities, with specific focus on the dissemination of evidenced based crime prevention programs and initiatives. Other research interests include child sexual abuse and neglect, online child sexual predation, and school-based bullying. Yolande's publications include chapters in Wayne Petherick's Profiling and Serial Crime and The Psychology of Antisocial Behavior. Wayne Petherick is Associate Professor of Criminology at Bond University in Australia. Wayne's areas of interest include forensic criminology, forensic victimology, criminal motivations, criminal profiling, and applied crime analysis. He has worked on risk and threat cases, a mass homicide, stalking, rape, and a variety of civil suits involving premises liability and crime prevention. He has presented to audiences in Australia and abroad, and has published in a variety of areas including social science and legal works in the areas of criminal profiling, expert evidence, stalking, serial crimes, criminal motivations, and victimology. Wayne is co-editor of Forensic Criminology, and editor of Profiling and Serial Crime: Theoretical and Practical Issues, now in its third edition.