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Children and violence :

0230584306

9780230584303

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Children and violence :

[Book]

the world of the defenceless

Einar A. Helander ; forewords by Halfdan Mahler and H.D. Deve Gowda.

Basingstoke [England] ; New York

Palgrave Macmillan

2008

(xxiv, 334 pages) : illustrations

Part I: Introduction. You cut a rose and release a tornado --;Definitions, materials and methods --;Mirrors of the past --;Part II: Micro-system violence towards biological and social orphans. Children in residential institutions --;Children on their own --;Parent deprivation: consequences and alternatives --;Part III: Damaging effects of the meso-system: childhood violence in birth families and its consequences. Prevalence of childhood violence --;Micro-system consequences and upstream effects of childhood violence --;Part IV: Roots of violence. Causes of and contributors to childhood violence and the potential for primary prevention --;Human services for the child victims: care of somatic and mental disorders and rehabilitation --;Part V: The global system: perspectives of human rights, evolution, development and progress. Human rights and human wrongs --;Poverty, inequality and solidarity --;The sacrifice of the poor --;Part VI: Primary child violence prevention by exo-systems. A community-based child defense and support (CDS) programme --;Conclusion.

This book provides a disturbing account of the reality of child abuse. Based on data from 152 countries, Einar Helander considers the physical, societal, economic and judicial consequences of child abuse, proposing a universal, community-based prevention programme.

Child abuse.

Children -- Institutional care.

Children -- Violence against.

Einar A. Helander ; forewords by Halfdan Mahler and H.D. Deve Gowda.

Einar Helander

[Book]

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