Children, Families and Violence: Challenges for Children's Rights - Hardcover

Covell, Katherine

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1843106981 ISBN 13: 9781843106982

Verlag: Jessica Kingsley, 2008

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This book examines the risk factors surrounding children at risk of experiencing and perpetrating violence, and looks at the positive role that children's rights can play in their protection.The authors propose that violence in childhood is not spontaneous: that children are raised to become violent in poorly functioning families and child-unfriendly environments. They may be exposed to toxic substances in utero, to maltreatment in infancy, to domestic violence or parental criminality as they grow up. Each of these risk factors is empirically linked with the development of antisocial and aggressive behaviour, and each reflects a violation of children's rights to protection from maltreatment. The authors show how respecting children's rights and safeguarding them from exposure to violence can shift the balance between risk and protective factors and, as a result, reduce the incidence and severity of childhood violence.This book will be essential reading for professionals working in child protection or with young offenders, academics, students, practitioners and policy-makers.

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Alison and Simon lost their daughter to a careless driver who escaped serious punishment. Decades later, at a beach resort in Thailand, they meet other tourists who have suffered similar losses. A casual conversation about whether killing a person is ever justified leads to a series of life-altering events for all of them.

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• Verlag: Jessica Kingsley
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2008
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1843106981
• ISBN 13: 9781843106982
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 288
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
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