Child Abuse and Neglect ― Forensic Issues in Evidence, Impact and Management

Child Abuse and Neglect: Forensic Issues in Evidence, Impact and Management is a reference text that provides an overview of all aspects of child abuse and neglect and fills a void in current literature. This work approaches the issue of child abuse 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 to intelligence.

A distinguishing feature of this work is the format. The content is designed to align with university semester timetables, and is presented in three parts. Educators can choose to cover three (or more) of the chapters from within each part to fit within a universal twelve-week teaching program. Part One covers typologies, methods, and platforms for abuse, Part Two covers impacts and prevention of child abuse, and Part Three presents issues surrounding recognition and management of child abuse.

Child Abuse and Neglect fills a void in the available university-level classroom-targeted literature, promoting the inclusion of child abuse as a stand-alone 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.

• An up to date approach that tackles child abuse from several viewpoints
• Coverage includes (but not limited to): 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, neurological effects of child abuse and neuroplasticity, and online and virtual child abuse