Children, families and violence : challenges for children's rights /
This book examines the risk factors surrounding children at risk of experiencing and perpetrating violence, and looks at the positive role that children's rights can play in their protection. The authors propose that violence in childhood is not spontaneous: that children are raised to become v...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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London ; Philadelphia :
Jessica Kingsley Publishers,
2009.
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| Online Access: | CONNECT CONNECT |
| Summary: | This book examines the risk factors surrounding children at risk of experiencing and perpetrating violence, and looks at the positive role that children's rights can play in their protection. The authors propose that violence in childhood is not spontaneous: that children are raised to become violent in poorly functioning families and child-unfriendly environments. They may be exposed to toxic substances in utero, to maltreatment in infancy, to domestic violence or parental criminality as they grow up. Each of these risk factors is empirically linked with the development of antisocial and aggr. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (287 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-278) and indexes. |
| ISBN: | 1846428475 9781846428470 |
