Child Abuse: Today's Issues

The purpose of this book is to attempt to explore child abuse from a contemporary perspective in terms of its multiple elements, victims, and criminal justice responses. This text will: (1) begin to address the needs of those studying child abuse from a cultural perspective; (2) provide a general profile of today's perpetrators of child abuse as well as conditions that may facilitate the abuse; (3) provide information on current modes of child abuse; (4) provide discussions on long-term consequences for adult victims of child abuse; and, (5) provide details in terms of criminal justice responses to child abuse in the United States and internationally.

• | Author: Kimberly A. McCabe|Daniel G. Murphy
• | Publisher: Routledge
• | Publication Date: Nov 21, 2016
• | Number of Pages: 202 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 1498780415
• | ISBN-13: 9781498780414