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Child Abuse and Neglect
Forensic Issues in Evidence, Impact and Management
- 1st Edition - February 2, 2019
- Editors: India Bryce, Yolande Robinson, Wayne Petherick
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 8 1 5 3 4 4 - 4
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 8 1 5 3 4 5 - 1
Child Abuse and Neglect: Forensic Issues in Evidence, Impact and Management provides an overview of all aspects of child abuse and neglect, approaching the topic. from several v… Read more
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Request a sales quoteChild Abuse and Neglect: Forensic Issues in Evidence, Impact and Management provides an overview of all aspects of child abuse and neglect, approaching the topic. from several viewpoints. First, child abuse is considered from both victimization and offending perspectives, and although empirical scholarship informs much of the content, there is applied material from international experts and practitioners in the field—from policing, to child safety and intelligence. The content is presented to align with university semester timetables in three parts, including 1) Typologies, methods and platforms for abuse, 2) Impacts and prevention, and (3) Issues surrounding recognition and management of child abuse.
This book fills a void in the available university-level classroom-targeted literature, promoting the inclusion of child abuse as a standalone subject within university curricula. As such, readership includes undergraduate and postgraduate students, teachers and wider scholarship, as well as practitioners; including those from psychology, criminology, criminal justice and law enforcement.
- Presents an up-to-date approach that tackles child abuse from several viewpoints
- Includes typologies, risk and protective factors, recognition, responses, biopsychosocial outcomes, public policy, prevention, institutional abuse, children and corrections, treatment and management, and myths and fallacies
- Provides information on significant advances in knowledge areas, such as disclosure, the neurological effects of child abuse and neuroplasticity, and online and virtual child abuse
Forensic Psychologists, Forensic Criminologists, and practitioners in Criminal Justice and Law Enforcement. Students and Instructors of upper-level undergraduate and graduate level forensic psychology and criminology programs
- No. of pages: 485
- Language: English
- Edition: 1
- Published: February 2, 2019
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Paperback ISBN: 9780128153444
- eBook ISBN: 9780128153451
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India Bryce
India Bryce is currently completing her PhD at the University of Southern Queensland, she also holds a Master of Social Work: Forensic Studies, Vocational Graduate Certificate: Community Service Practice (Client Assessment and Case Management), Vocational Graduate Certificate: Community Services Practice (Statutory Child Protection), Masters in Guidance and Counselling, and Bachelor of Education. India is currently a lecturer in Human Development, Wellbeing and Counselling at the University of Southern Queensland and has previously worked as a Child Safety Officer in the state of Queensland.
Affiliations and expertise
Lecturer, Human Development, Wellbeing and Counselling, University of Southern Queensland, Queensland, AustraliaYR
Yolande Robinson
Yolande Robinson’s research focuses on improving outcomes for children and youth at risk in disadvantaged communities, with specific focus on the dissemination of evidenced based crime prevention programs and initiatives. Other research interests include child sexual abuse and neglect, online child sexual predation, and school-based bullying. Yolande’s publications include chapters in Wayne Petherick’s Profiling and Serial Crime and The Psychology of Antisocial Behavior.
Affiliations and expertise
Researcher, School of Criminology and Criminal Justice, Griffith University, Queensland, AustraliaWP
Wayne Petherick
Wayne Petherick is Associate Professor of Criminology at Bond University in Australia. Wayne’s areas of interest include forensic criminology, forensic victimology, criminal motivations, criminal profiling, and applied crime analysis. He has worked on risk and threat cases, a mass homicide, stalking, rape, and a variety of civil suits involving premises liability and crime prevention. He has presented to audiences in Australia and abroad, and has published in a variety of areas including social science and legal works in the areas of criminal profiling, expert evidence, stalking, serial crimes, criminal motivations, and victimology. Wayne is co-editor of Forensic Criminology, and editor of Profiling and Serial Crime: Theoretical and Practical Issues, now in its third edition.
Affiliations and expertise
Associate Professor of Criminology, Faculty of Society and Design, Bond University, Gold Coast, Queensland, AustraliaRead Child Abuse and Neglect on ScienceDirect