NCJ Number
176812
Editor(s)
D Frehsee,
W Horn,
K-D Bussmann
Date Published
1996
Length
212 pages
Annotation
This volume contains a collection of papers presented at a conference on violence against children and adolescents that was held in September 1994 at the Center for Interdisciplinary Research in Bielefeld, Germany.
Abstract
The first section of the volume looks at violence toward children in the family and the role of law, the Swedish ban on corporal punishment, a Swedish study of public attitudes toward different forms of childrearing, and changes in family sanctioning styles and the impact of abolishing corporal punishment. The second section of the volume addresses violence in society, war and communal violence, social change and trends in the approval of corporal punishment by parents between 1968 and 1994, and public attitudes toward corporal punishment in Canada. The final section of the volume includes papers on sexual and physical abuse of children, child abuse in the Netherlands, German government reactions to child abuse, and the role of the police in responding to family violence incidents. References, notes, tables, and figures