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Victim, Perpetrator, or What Else? : Generational and Gender Perspectives on Children, Youth, and Violence. /

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.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Alberth, Lars (Editor ), Doris Bühler-Niederberger (Editor ), Loretta E. Bass (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bingley : Emerald Publishing Limited, 2020.
©2020
Colección:Sociological Studies of Children and Youth Ser. ; v. 25
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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)