Violence Against Children (eBook, PDF)

Making Human Rights Real
Redaktion: Lenzer, Gertrud

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Produktbeschreibung

Violence Against Children adopts in its title the exhortation of Nobel Laureate Amartya Sen, "Making Human Rights Real," which also represents the leitmotif of the book. It examines the prevalence of violence against children in Africa, the Asia Pacific Region, Europe, Latin America and the Caribbean, and in the United States, and explores major ways of its prevention. Making human rights real engenders the challenge of helping all children to be free from violence and to lead a life replete with genuine nurture and the elimination of all violence. Only in this manner will the goal of the United Nations 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development -target 16.2-be achieved and the child as a rights-bearing individual realized in her/his fullness.

The specially commissioned chapters that make up the volume have been written by renowned scholars, researchers and advocates. They coalesce to provide an overview of the challenges facing children exposed to violence worldwide, and they advance discussions of the measures which are available and necessary for the prevention of violence against children. The book is intended for policy-makers, researchers and students of the social sciences and human rights who are interested in ending all the widespread maltreatment of children in our societies and our time.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 438
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. November 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351248426
• Artikelnr.: 50403583

Autorenporträt

Gertrud Lenzer is Professor Emeritus of Sociology and Children's Studies at The City University of New York. She has published widely in the fields of philosophy and the social sciences, children's rights and children's studies. In 1991, Lenzer was both the founder of the interdisciplinary field of Children's Studies as well as the Founding Chair of the Sociology of Children Section of the American Sociological Association. Her current work includes an appointment to the 16-member New York State Advisory Committee to the US Commission on Civil Rights from 2015-2020.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Contributors. Foreword. Preface: Freedom from Violence for All
Children. Acknowledgments. Chapter 1: Violence against Children: From a
Hidden Phenomenon to a Global Concern. Part I. General and International
Dimensions of Violence against Children. Chapter 2: Violence against
Children: Endemic, Detrimental, Preventable. Chapter 3: INSPIRE: Using the
Best Evidence to Prevent Violence against Children. Chapter 4: The Global
Movement to End All Corporal Punishment of Children. Chapter 5: Confronting
Child Exploitation: The Optional Protocols and the Role of Children's
Rights Law. Chapter 6: Violence Against Children in Africa. Chapter 7:
Violence against Children in the Asia Pacific Region. Chapter 8: Current
Perspectives on Violence against Children in Europe. Chapter 9: Violence
against Children in Latin America and the Caribbean: A Review of
Population-Based Data Available for Measuring Progress Towards the
Sustainable Development Goals. Chapter 10: Epigenetic and Multigenerational
Impact of Adversity. PART II. Violence against Children and the United
States. Chapter 11: Violence in the Lives of Children in the United States.
Chapter 12: The U.S. Department of Justice Defending Childhood Initiative:
Advancing the Cause of Children Exposed to Violence. Chapter 13: The
Problem of Corporal Punishment and the Solution of Positive Parenting in
the United States. Chapter 14: The Violence of Child Poverty. Chapter 15:
The Violence of Child Homelessness. Chapter 16: The Urgent Need to Disrupt
Structural Violence against Children in American Foster Care. Chapter 17:
School to Prison Pipeline. Chapter 18: Racial and Ethnic Disparities of
Children in the United States: Pursuing Equity and Engaging Structural
Racism in Youth Serving Systems. Chapter 19: Youth Prisons as a Form of
Violence: An International Human Rights Perspective.