The book series, Child Maltreatment: Contemporary Issues in Research and Policy. will consist of a state of the art handbook (to be revised every five years) and two to three volumes per year. The first volume in this seriesis a legacy to C. Henry Kempe. This is a timely publication because 2012 marks 50 years after the appearance of the foundational article by C. Henry Kempe and his colleagues, The Battered-Child Syndrome. This volume capitalizes on this 50 year anniversary to stand back and assess the field from the perspective that Dr. Kempe s early contributions and ideas are still...