Includes bibliographic references and index

English

Protecting children from violence : historical roots and emerging trends / James Michael Lampinen & Kathy Sexton Radek -- Exposure to violence : who is most effected and why? / James Galezewski -- Protecting children in their homes : effective prevention programs and policies / Lyndon Abrams & Sharon G. Portwood -- Empirically-based violence prevention interventions / Kathy Sexton-Radek -- Identifying children potentially at-risk for serious maladjustment due to peer victimization : a new model using receiver operating characteristics (roc) analysis / Rebecca A. Newgent, Amy D. Seay, Kenya T. Malcolm, Elizabeth A. Keller, & Timothy A. Cavell -- Interviewing child victims : advances in the scientific understanding of child eyewitness memory / Timothy N. Odegard, Crystal M. Cooper, Robyn E. Holliday, & Stephen J. Ceci -- Missing and abducted children / James Michael Lampinen, Jack D. Arnal, Amber Culbertson-Faegre, & Lindsey Sweeney -- Looking both ways before crossing the information superhighway : issues of concern for minors in cyberspace / Christopher S. Peters, Robin M. Kowalski, & L. Alvin Malesky, Jr. -- Public attitudes toward applying sex offender registration laws to juvenile offenders / Jessica M. Salerno, Margaret C. Stevenson, Tisha R. A. Wiley, Cynthia J. Najdowski, Bette L. Bottoms, & Rachel A. Schmillen -- Mediating factors in the long-term outcome following childhood abuse : cognitive and other factors predicting personal distress, intimacy functioning, and resilience / Patricia A. Petretic & Elizabeth White Chaisson -- Cognitive development and exposure to violence in children / Robert Schleser, Ph.D. & Mary E. Bodzy -- Snakes, spiders, strangers : how the evolved fear of strangers may misdirect efforts to protect children from harm / Jennifer Hahn-Holbrook, Colin Holbrook & Jesse Bering -- International perspectives on domestic violence / Paula T. McWhirter & Elizabeth Altshuler-Bard -- Protecting children from the violence of global health inequities : working beyond academic halls and clinic walls / Chris E. Stout -- Protecting children from violence : historical roots and emerging trends : conclusions / Kathy Sexton-Radek & James Michael Lampinen.

Providing an evidence-based understanding of the causes and consequences of violence against children, this book features experts in the field who examine the best practices used to help protect children from violence. It reviews various types of violence including physical and sexual abuse, (cyber-)bullying, human trafficking, and war.

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