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Title Victim, Perpetrator, or What Else? : Generational and Gender Perspectives on Children, Youth, and Violence. / edited by Doris Bühler-Niederberger, Lars Alberth, Loretta E. Bass.

Publication Info. Bingley : Emerald Publishing Limited, 2020.
©2020

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Description 1 online resource (215 pages).
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Series Sociological Studies of Children and Youth Ser. ; v. 25
Sociological Studies of Children and Youth Ser. ; v. 25.
Contents Cover; Victim, Perpetrator, or What Else? Generational and Gender Perspectives on Children, Youth, and Violence; Contents; About the Contributors; Introduction: Children and Violence -- A Blind Spot of Sociology; The Generational and Gender Bias in Approaching Violence; Sociology of Violence -- Peaceful Modernity?; A New Sociology of Violence as Emerging Field -- Beyond Generation; Victimology -- a Sidestep Towards the Child in the Name of Social Control; Our Direction: Violence and Generational Order; Contextualizing the Contributions; Perceptions and Definitions; Institutional Reactions
Conditions of Change -- Global, National, and Local ActorsReferences; PART I. Perceptions and Definitions; The Rhetorical Idiom of Unreason: On Labelling in Child Protection; Introduction; Child Protection as Social Problems Rhetoric; The German Child Protection System; Methods; Results; Rhetorical Irrelevance of Violence; The Irresponsible Mother and Her Limited Agency; Children: Ignored and Troubling; Deflection of Responsibility; Assignment of Causes; Conclusions; Acknowledgements; References; Appendix; The Perpetration of Fatal Child Maltreatment: It's the Men Who Are Bad, Right?
IntroductionChild Maltreatment Fatalities: Definitions, Prevalence Rates, and Government Responses; Victimization, Perpetration, and Risk Factors for Child Maltreatment Fatalities; Differences in Case Characteristics When Perpetrator is Mother's Male Partner; Misperceptions Among Professionals; Potential Reasons for Misperceptions Concerning Gender in the Perpetration of Child Maltreatment Fatalities; History and Culture in the Idealization of Women; The Intersecting Areas of Child Neglect and Accidents; Gender and Criminal Charges Filed in Cases of Maltreatment Fatalities; Implications
NotesReferences; The Definitions Are Legion: Academic Views and Practice Perspectives on Violence Against Children; Introduction; Conceptual Issues; The Configuration of Persons Implied: Victims and Perpetrators; Lack of Operationalization. Who Is a Child and Beyond; Perpetrators; Characteristics of Violent Acts and Omissions; Do Acts Have to be Malevolent?; Consent and Power Differentials; Neglecting the Neglect; Witnessing Intimate Partner Violence as a Separate Category?; Additional Forms of Violence Against Children; Thresholds
Applying Child Maltreatment Definitions in Swiss Child Protection PracticeLegal Threshold for Intervention; Variety of Frameworks; Lacking (Documentation of) Definitions; Difficulties in the Perception of Neglect and Psychological Maltreatment; Conclusion; Notes; References; Putting Definitions to Work: Reflections from the Canadian Domestic Homicide Prevention Initiative with Vulnerable Populations; Introduction; Approaches to Defining Domestic Homicide; Domestic Violence Death Review Committees; The Canadian Domestic Homicide Prevention Initiative with Vulnerable Populations (CDHPIVP)
Note Definition of Domestic Homicide
Summary This volume maps the ways that children and young people are considered victims or perpetrators by their societies and consequently the ways that their societies react. The chapters analyse a variety of phenomena in different countries of the Global North and South.
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Subject Abused children -- Social aspects.
Abused children.
Social aspects.
Abused children -- Social conditions.
Social conditions.
Child abuse -- Social aspects.
Child abuse -- Social aspects.
Child abuse.
Victims of family violence -- Social conditions.
Victims of family violence.
Family violence -- Social aspects.
Family violence -- Social aspects.
Family violence.
Juvenile delinquency.
Juvenile delinquency.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Alberth, Lars, editor.
Doris Bühler-Niederberger, editor.
Loretta E. Bass, editor.
Other Form: Print version: Bühler-Niederberger, Doris. Victim, Perpetrator, or What Else? : Generational and Gender Perspectives on Children, Youth, and Violence. Bingley : Emerald Publishing Limited, ©2019 9781789733365
ISBN 9781789733358
1789733359
1789733375
9781789733372 (electronic book)
9781789733365 (hardback)