Childhood Victimization: Violence, Crime, and Abuse in the Lives of Young People

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Children are the most criminally victimized segment of the population, but the problem has been addressed in a highly fragmented way, obscuring its true burden as well as the need for an integrated policy response. David Finkelhor, a longtime authority on child victimization and director of the Crimes against Children Research Center at the University of New Hampshire, uses this book to propose and advocate for such a comprehensive and integratedperspective.

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Children are the most criminally victimized segment of the population, and a substantial number face multiple, serious "poly-victimizations" during a single year. And despite the fact that the priority emphasis in academic research and government policy has traditionally gone to studying juvenile delinquents, children actually appear before authorities more frequently as victims than as offenders. But at the same time, the media and many advocates have failed tonote the good news: rates of sexual abuse, child homicide, and many other forms of victimization declined dramatically after the mid-1990s, and some terribly feared forms of child victimization, likestereotypical stranger abduction, are remarkably uncommon. The considerable ignorance about the realities of child victimization can be chalked up to a field that is fragmented, understudied, and subjected to political demagoguery. In this persuasive book, David Finkelhor presents a comprehensive new vision to encompass the prevention, treatment, and study of juvenile victims, unifying conventional subdivisions like child molestation, child abuse, bullying, and exposure tocommunity violence. Developmental victimology, his term for this integrated perspective, looks at child victimization across childhood's span and yields fascinating insights about how to categorizejuvenile victimizations, how to think about risk and impact, and how victimization patterns change over the course of development. The book also provides a valuable new model of society's response to child victimization - what Finkelhor calls the Juvenile Victim Justice System - and a fresh way of thinking about barriers that victims and their families encounter when seeking help. These models will be very useful to anyone seeking to improve the way we try to help childvictims. Crimes against children still happen far too often, but by proposing a new framework for thinking about the issue, Childhood Victimization opens a promising door to reducing its frequency andimproving the response. Professionals, policymakers, and child advocates will find this paradigm-shifting book to be a valuable addition to their shelves.

Author Biography

David Finkelhor is Director of Crimes against Children Research Center, Co-Director of the Family Research Laboratory and Professor of Sociology at the University of New Hampshire. He has been studying the problems of child victimization, child maltreatment and family violence since 1977. He is editor and author of 11 previous books and over 150 journal articles and book chapters.

Table of Contents

List of ContributorsChapter 1: Child Victims: An IntroductionChapter 2: Developmental VictimologyChapter 3: Children at RiskChapter 4: Developmental ImpactWith Kathy Kendall-TackettChapter 5: Just Kids' Stuff? Peer and Sibling Violencewith Heather Turner and Richard OrmrodChapter 6: Getting Help: What Are the Barriers?With Janis Wolak and Lucy BerlinerChapter 7: Good News: Child Victimization Has Been Declining. Why?With Lisa JonesChapter 8: The Juvenile Victim Justice System: A Concept for Helping VictimsWith Ted Cross and Elise N. PepinChapter 9: ProposalsNotesReferences

Review

"...an important book...As in all his work, Finkelhor proceeds in a careful analytical way, sorting through explanations, advancing helpful classification systems and making good use of empirical evidence where it exists...[He is] a stimulating theorist and policy analyst. Finkelhor has challenged specialists in a way which will hopefully lead to productive and practically important scholarship. "Northwest Institute for Children and Families""...a must read book."The Lancet"

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In this persuasive book, David Finkelhor presents a comprehensive new vision to encompass the prevention, treatment, and study of juvenile victims, unifying conventional subdivisions like child molestation, child abuse, bullying, and exposure to community violence.

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Children are the most criminally victimized segment of the population, and a substantial number face multiple, serious "poly-victimizations" during a single year. And despite the fact that the priority emphasis in academic research and government policy has traditionally gone to studying juvenile delinquents, children actually appear before authorities more frequently as victims than as offenders. But at the same time, the media and many advocates have failed tonote the good news: rates of sexual abuse, child homicide, and many other forms of victimization declined dramatically after the mid-1990s, and some terribly feared forms of child victimization, like stereotypical stranger abduction, are remarkably uncommon. The considerable ignorance about therealities of child victimization can be chalked up to a field that is fragmented, understudied, and subjected to political demagoguery. In this persuasive book, David Finkelhor presents a comprehensive new vision to encompass the prevention, treatment, and study of juvenile victims, unifying conventional subdivisions like child molestation, child abuse, bullying, and exposure to community violence. Developmental victimology, his term for this integrated perspective, looksat child victimization across childhood's span and yields fascinating insights about how to categorize juvenile victimizations, how to think about risk and impact, and how victimization patterns change over the course of development. The book also provides a valuable new modelof society's response to child victimization - what Finkelhor calls the Juvenile Victim Justice System - and a fresh way of thinking about barriers that victims and their families encounter when seeking help. These models will be very useful to anyone seeking to improve the way we try to help child victims. Crimes against children still happen far too often, but by proposing a new framework for thinking about the issue, Childhood Victimization opens a promising door to reducing itsfrequency and improving the response. Professionals, policymakers, and child advocates will find this paradigm-shifting book to be a valuable addition to their shelves.

Review Text

"...an important book...As in all his work, Finkelhor proceeds in a careful analytical way, sorting through explanations, advancing helpful classification systems and making good use of empirical evidence where it exists...[He is] a stimulating theorist and policy analyst. Finkelhor has challenged specialists in a way which will hopefully lead to productive and practically important scholarship. "Northwest Institute for Children and Families""...a must read book."The Lancet"

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...an important book...As in all his work, Finkelhor proceeds in a careful analytical way, sorting through explanations, advancing helpful classification systems and making good use of empirical evidence where it exists...[He is] a stimulating theorist and policy analyst. Finkelhor has challenged specialists in a way which will hopefully lead to productive and practically important scholarship.

Feature

Selling point: Written by one of the most well-respected authorities on child victimizationSelling point: Offers fresh, research-supported insights on a contentious topicSelling point: Proposes models for change as well as analyzing and diagnosing the problem

Details ISBN0199359156 Author David Finkelhor Pages 248 Year 2014 ISBN-10 0199359156 ISBN-13 9780199359158 Format Paperback DEWEY 361.3 Short Title CHILDHOOD VICTIMIZATION Series Interpersonal Violence Language English Media Book Affiliation University of New Hampshire, Durham, USA University of New Hampshire U Illustrations black & white illustrations Subtitle Violence, Crime, and Abuse in the Lives of Young People Place of Publication New York Country of Publication United States Publisher Oxford University Press Inc Publication Date 2014-08-07 UK Release Date 2014-08-07 AU Release Date 2014-08-07 NZ Release Date 2014-08-07 US Release Date 2014-08-07 Birth 1955 Edited by Ibrahim Abubakar Position Reader in Bioscience Education Qualifications J.D. Imprint Oxford University Press Inc Alternative 9780195342857 Audience Professional & Vocational We've got this

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