The ISPCAN International Handbook of Child Abuse and Neglect
- 1st Edition - November 5, 2026
- Latest edition
- Editors: Kevin Lalor, John Fluke, Shanta R. Dube, Carmit Katz
- Language: English
The ISPCAN International Handbook of Child Abuse and Neglect offers a comprehensive examination of global knowledge on child maltreatment. In partnership with the Intern… Read more
Description
Description
Latter sections focus on the latest intervention and prevention strategies, critically evaluating their effectiveness across different settings. Concluding with insights into future directions, the book emphasizes emerging trends, innovative approaches, and the continual need for comprehensive research and policy development in this crucial field.
Key features
Key features
- Provides an in-depth examination of child maltreatment, including surveillance, risks, and consequences from a worldwide perspective
- Features detailed case studies from various regions, illuminating unique challenges and responses to different forms of child abuse
- Explores effective intervention and prevention methods, critically assessing their applicability in diverse contexts
- Highlights emerging trends and innovative approaches in child maltreatment research and policy, emphasizing the need for ongoing developments in the field
Readership
Readership
Table of contents
Table of contents
Kevin Lalor, John Fluke, Shanta Dube, Carmit Katz & Pragathi Tummala
PART 1: Global Perspectives: Surveillance, Risks and Consequences of Child Maltreatment
2. Keeping the promise: Investment in child protection and wellbeing as a key accelerator for achieving the sustainable development goals
Najat Maalla M’jid
3. Polycrisis, pushback and possibility: The relevance of the UN committee on the rights of the child
Philipe Jaffé & Mané Kocharyan
4. Enhancing country-level monitoring to obtain valid and reliable global estimates of childhood abuse
Claudia Cappa, Colleen Murray & Nicole Petrowski
5. Child abuse and neglect: An international public health perspective
Berit Kieselbach & Stephanie Burrows
6. Violence against children and youth surveys: Lessons learned and future directions
Ashleigh L. Howard, Constanza Ginestra, Laura F. Chiang, Manuela Balliet Ahogo, Christine Hart, Shanta R. Dube
7. Understanding risk and protective factors for child abuse and neglect
Chris Wekerle, Ante Cuvalo & Tracie Afifi
8. Mental and physical health consequences of child maltreatment
Cathy Widom & Kellie Courtney
PART 2: Contextual and Environmental Factors
9. Climate change and violence against children
Daniel Helldén, John Fluke & Ketil Lenart Hansen
10. The global shift from corporal punishment to positive discipline
Joan Durrant
11. Female genital mutilation/cutting and child marriage: Applying a political economy lens to understand and address two intersecting phenomena
Chi-Chi Undie, Dennis Matanda & Tamsin Bradley
12. Child maltreatment in religious contexts: Epidemiology, risks, consequences and prevention
Andreas Jud, Gabrielle Hunt & Daryl Higgins
13. Safeguarding in sports against child abuse and neglect
Rocco Briganti, Paul Stewart & Pragathi Tummala
PART 3: Understanding Different Forms of Abuse
14. Neglected children: An overview for clinicians, researchers and policy makers
Howard Dubowitz, Julia M. Kobulsky & Mayada Karkawally
15. Sexual exploitation and abuse of boys: Global Majority perspectives
Mark Kavenagh, Jennifer Schatz & Lattapol Jirapathomsakul
16. Labor and sex trafficking of children and adolescents
Jordan Greenbaum
17. Responding to the challenges of technology-facilitated child sexual exploitation and abuse in low- and middle-income countries
Bernadette Madrid
18. Child maltreatment fatalities and lessons from CDRs
Fujiko Yamada, Shanaaz Mathews & Vince Palusci
19. Childhood emotional abuse: An overdue public health priority
Ben Mathews and Shanta Dube
PART 4: Regional Spotlight and Groups at Enhanced Risk
20. European responses to violence against children
Agnes Von Maravic & Mireya García de Murcía
21. Driving change in Far East Asia child protection systems through collaboration
Patrick C.H. Cheung, Grenville Cross, Kayoko Ito and Gracia Goh
22. Child abuse in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC): Evolution of child protection
Maryam Ehsani & Hanan Alshaikh
23. Implementing community-wide parenting support: A case example from South Africa
Wilmi Dippenaar, Catherine L. Ward & Chandré Gould
24. Violence against children in street situations
Michael Goodman, Shanti Raman & Kevin Lalor
25. At the margins of care: Systemic failures and violence against LGBTQ+ youth in the child protection system in three European countries
Mónica López López & Willem J. Stander
26. Building a global commitment to children in conflict and crisis: A historical trajectory of child protection in humanitarian action
Hani Mansourion & Elena Giannini
27. An invisible problem: Global perspectives on violence, abuse and neglect of children with disabilities
Mary Wickenden & Gavin Adam Wood
28. Schools and teachers as drivers of violence against children (VAC) in Africa
Janeth Kigobe, Faustine B. Masath, Joseph Ssenyonga, Emmanuel Nyarko-Tetteh, & Tobias Hecker
29. The abuse of children in residential alternative care
Hans Grietens
PART 5: Intervention and Prevention Strategies
30. Evidence-based treatment for children and adolescents who have experienced child maltreatment
Elisabeth Pollio & Esther Deblinger
31. Collaborative approaches to responding to child abuse: The CAC and Barnahus approaches
Abbie Newman & Olivia Lind-Haldorsson
32. Decision making through assessment in systems of protection
John Fluke & Roberta Ruggiero
33. Medical assessment of child maltreatment: Methods and considerations
Gaby Otterman & Dena Nazer
34. Toward a global standard: Cornerstones for training in child maltreatment
Katz, Ma'ayan Jacobson & Pragathi Tummala
35. Innovating child maltreatment prevention: Challenges ahead
Beth Molnar & Megan C. Souza
PART 6: Future Directions and Innovative Approaches in Addressing Child Maltreatment
36. Digital risks to children and exploitation pathways: Findings from the N-Light and GroSafe projects
Susan McKeever, Luis Miralles & Christina Thorpe
37. Illuminating the unseen: A case study of Childlight, global child safety institute
Zoe Lambourne, Diala Nseir, James Stevenson, Sabrina Page, Ashleigh McFeeters, Doug Marshall & Deborah Fry
38. Your story matters: The impact of lived experience on service policy, design, and delivery
Afnan Attrash-Najjar, Sabine Andresen, Kaitlyn Krueger, Richard Krugman, Anat Ofir & Carmit Katz
39. Ethical aspects of research on child abuse
John Fluke, Mijntje ten Brummelaar, Emmaline Houston & Kevin Lalo
Product details
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- Edition: 1
- Latest edition
- Published: November 5, 2026
- Language: English
About the editors
About the editors
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Kevin Lalor
KEVIN LALOR, PhD, is a psychology lecturer and has held numerous Head of Department and Head of School roles in TU Dublin, and its predecessor, Dublin Institute of Technology.
His research is primarily focused on child abuse and neglect since doctoral studies on the victimization of street children in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia in the early 1990s. He has published a number of reviews on aspects of child abuse in sub-Saharan Africa and in Europe.
He is a member of the editorial boards of Child Abuse and Neglect: The International Journal and Children, Youth and Environments. He is a former editor of the Irish Journal of Applied Social Studies and is a member of the Research Ethics Committee of the National Society for the Protection of Cruelty to Children (NSPCC) in the UK. He is the current President of ISPCAN (International Society for the Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect).
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John Fluke
Dr. Fluke is Professor with Tenure at the Kempe Center with joint appointments in the Department of Pediatrics at the University of Colorado School Of Medicine and the Department of Epidemiology at the Colorado School of Public Health. His research involves assessing and analyzing decision making in human services delivery systems. Recognized for his work in the areas of administrative data analysis, assessment, workload, and outcome measurement, he also works in the area Child Maltreatment epidemiology including work on data programs in several countries and the U.S. As a researcher in child welfare and children’s mental health, he concentrates on the application of data and research to guide policy and practice. Privileged to work with collaborators and mentees around the world, he has conducted research and evaluation at all levels of government, in the non-governmental sector, and with foundations, in the U.S. and internationally and published widely.
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Shanta R. Dube
Dr. Shanta R. Dube is a Professor (with tenure) and Director of the Master of Public Health Program, Department of Public Health, Levine College of Health Sciences, Wingate University. She is a behavioral and social epidemiologist spending her 25-year career on the epidemiology of ACEs and pathways to resiliency, with a focus on adult trauma survivors. Her research contributions from the CDC-Kaiser ACE Study gained national and international recognition across various sectors and led to the CDC award for scientific excellence. In 2007, she joined the CDC’s Office on Smoking and Health to lead a national surveillance program, which included the first reports on e-cigarette use. Shanta’s current focus is focused on ACEs advocacy. She is actively engaged in developing and evaluating programs for substance use disorders, such as the opioid epidemic, using an ACEs science and trauma-informed framework. She is also actively researching the use of digital health applications for promoting health and well-being in populations.
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