Lenzer Violence Against Children

Making Human Rights Real
Erscheinungsjahr 2017
ISBN: 978-1-351-24841-9
Verlag: Taylor & Francis
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 438 Seiten

Violence Against Children adopts in its title the exhortation of Nobel Laureate Amartya Sen, "Making Human Rights Real," which also represents the leitmotif of the book. It examines the prevalence of violence against children in Africa, the Asia Pacific Region, Europe, Latin America and the Caribbean, and in the United States, and explores major ways of its prevention. Making human rights real engenders the challenge of helping all children to be free from violence and to lead a life replete with genuine nurture and the elimination of all violence. Only in this manner will the goal of the United Nations 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development —target 16.2—be achieved and the child as a rights-bearing individual realized in her/his fullness.

The specially commissioned chapters that make up the volume have been written by renowned scholars, researchers and advocates. They coalesce to provide an overview of the challenges facing children exposed to violence worldwide, and they advance discussions of the measures which are available and necessary for the prevention of violence against children. The book is intended for policy-makers, researchers and students of the social sciences and human rights who are interested in ending all the widespread maltreatment of children in our societies and our time.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Lenzer, Gertrud

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Altersgruppen Kinder- und Jugendsoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Contributors
Foreword
Paolo Sérgio Pinheiro
Preface: Freedom from Violence for all Children
Gertrud Lenzer
Acknowledgments

1 General Introduction: Violence against Children: From a Hidden Phenomenon to a Global Concern
Marta Santos Pais, Special Representative of the Secretary-General on Violence against Children

Part I. General and International Dimensions of Violence against Children

2 Violence against Children: Endemic, Detrimental, Preventable
Susan Hillis, James A. Mercy, Howard Kress, Alexander Butchart

3 INSPIRE: Using the Best Evidence to Prevent Violence against Children
Alexander Butchart, Susan Hillis, Stephanie Burrows

4 The Global Movement to End All Corporal Punishment of Children
Joan E. Durant

5 Confronting Child Exploitation: The Optional Protocols and the Role of Children’s Rights Law
Jonathan Todres

6 Violence against Children in Africa
Sonia Vohito

7 Violence against Children in the Asia Pacific Region
Victor P. Karunan and Neelam Singh

8 Current Perspectives on Violence against Children in Europe
Kevin Lalor and Rosaleen McElvaney

9 Violence against Children in Latin America and the Caribbean: A Review of Population-Based Data Avaliable for Measuring Progress Towards the Sustainable Development Goals.
Sarah Bott, Alessandra C. Guides, Constanza Hege, Jennifer Adams Mendoza

10 Epigenetic and Multigenerational Impact of Adversity
Frances A. Champagne

PART II. Violence against Children and the United States

11 Violence in the Lives of Children in the United States
Jennifer Vanderminden

12 The U.S. Department of Justice Defending Childhood Initiative: Advancing the Cause of Children Exposed to Violence
Phelan Wyrick and Dara Blachman-Demner

13 The Problem of Corporal Punishment and the Solution of Positive Parenting in the United States
George W. Holden and Rose Ashraf

14 The Violence of Child Poverty
Marian Wright Edelman

15 The Violence of Child Homelessness in the United States
Patricia Julianelle and Irene Sauceda

16 The Urgent Need to Disrupt Structural Violence against Children in American Foster Care
Ira Lustbader and Elissa Glucksman Hyne

17 School to Prison Pipeline
Rosa K. Hirji

18 Racial and Ethnic Disparities of Children in the United States: Pursuing Equity and Engaging Structural Racism in Youth Serving Systems
James Bell

19 Youth Prisons as a Form of Violence: An International Human Rights Perspective
Vincent Schiraldi

Über Autor(innen)

Gertrud Lenzer is Professor Emeritus of Sociology and Children’s Studies at The City University of New York. She has published widely in the fields of philosophy and the social sciences, children’s rights and children’s studies. In 1991, Lenzer was both the founder of the interdisciplinary field of Children’s Studies as well as the Founding Chair of the Sociology of Children Section of the American Sociological Association. Her current work includes an appointment to the 16-member New York State Advisory Committee to the US Commission on Civil Rights from 2015–2020.