Childhood victimization : violence, crime and abuse in the lives of young people
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Childhood victimization : violence, crime and abuse in the lives of young people
（Interpersonal violence / series editors, Claire Renzetti, Jeffrey L. Edleson）
Oxford University Press, 2008
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 187-214) and index
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Description
Children are the most criminally victimized segment of the population, and a substantial number face multiple, serious "poly-victimizations" during a single year. Despite the fact that the priority emphasis in academic research and government policy has traditionally gone to studying juvenile delinquents, children actually appear before authorities more frequently as victims than as offenders. At the same time, the media and many advocates have failed to note the
good news: rates of sexual abuse, child homicide, and many other forms of victimization declined dramatically after the mid-1990s, and some terribly feared forms of child victimization, like stereotypical stranger abduction, are remarkably uncommon. The considerable ignorance about the realities of
child victimization can be chalked up to a field that is fragmented, understudied and subjected to political demagoguery.
In this persuasive book, David Finkelhor presents a comprehensive new vision to encompass the prevention, treatment and study of juvenile victims, unifying conventional subdivisions like child molestation, child abuse, bullying and exposure to community violence. Developmental victimology, his term for this integrated perspective, looks at child victimization across childhood's span and yields fascinating insights about how to categorize juvenile victimizations, how to think about risk and
impact, and how victimization patterns change over the course of development. The book also provides a valuable new model of society's response to child victimization - what Finkelhor calls the Juvenile Victim Justice System - and a fresh way of thinking about barriers that victims and their families
encounter when seeking help. These models will be very useful to anyone seeking to improve the way we try to help child victims. Crimes against children still happen far too often, but by proposing a new framework for thinking about the issue, Childhood Victimization opens a promising door to reducing its frequency and improving the response. Professionals, policymakers, and child advocates will find this paradigm-shifting book to be a valuable addition to their shelves.
Table of Contents
- 1. Child Victims: An Introduction
- 2. Developmental Victimology
- 3. Children at Risk
- 4. Developmental Impact (David Finkelhor and Kathy Kendall-Tackett)
- 5. Just Kids' Stuff? Peer and Sibling Violence (David Finkelhor with Heather Turner and Richard Ormond)
- 6. Getting Help: What Are the Barriers? (David Finkelhor with Janis Wolak and Lucy Berliner)
- 7. Good News: Child Victimization Has Been Declining. Why? (David Finkelhor with Lisa Jones)
- 8. The Juvenile Victim Justice System: A Concept for Helping Victims (David Finkelhor with Ted Cross and Elise Cantor)
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