Interpersonal Violence against Children and Youth

Pulling together researchers, practitioners, and educators from around the world, this book addresses the various practices and efforts different countries use to protect children and prevent interpersonal violence.

Interpersonal Violence Against Children and Youth uses empirical research to provide an overview of the risk factors, different types of violence against children and youth, their victimizations (online and offline), as well as prevention practices and strategies. Pulling together researchers, practitioners, and educators from around the world, this book addresses the various practices and efforts different countries use to protect children and prevent interpersonal violence. These forms of violence include parental or caregiver initiated, actions of peers, intimate partner-related, or that among strangers and are not limited to maltreatment, bullying, emotional strife, sexual assault, or homicidal violence. This book would be of interest to those studying criminology, criminal justice, sociology, social work, law, forensic pathology and others.

Part I: Threats of Interpersonal Violence in Everyday Life

Chapter 1: Parental Physical Abuse of Children: Characterization and Reverberations in multiple Forms of Interpersonal Violence by Christina M. Rodriguez

Chapter 2: Multiple Forms of Violence in the Lives of Youth Experiencing Homelessness: Risk Factors and Outcomes by Kimberly A. Tyler and Rachel M. Schmitz

Chapter 3: Teen Dating Violence: Results from a National Study in Portugal by Maria José Magalhães, Cátia Pontedeira, Camila Iglesias, Ana Guerreiro, Margarida Teixeira, and Ana Beires

Part II: Computer-related Interpersonal Violence

Chapter 4: Image-based Sexual Abuse Among Australian Youths: The Experiences and Perspectives of Victims, Perpetrators, and Bystanders by Adrian Scott, Chelsea J. Mainwaring, Asher Flynn, Anastasia Powell, and Nicola Henry

Chapter 5: Cyberbullying: Its Social and Psychological Harms Among Schoolers by Hyeyoung Lim and Hannarae Lee

Chapter 6: Technological-facilitated Crimes Against Children: The Scope of the Problem and Interventions by Ashley Boal, Kyungshick Choi, Lisa M. Jones, Li Sian Goh, Hannarae Lee, Pamela MacDougall, and Anthony Petrosino

Part III: Systematic and Practical Challenges

Chapter 7: Controlling Minors: Extra Legal Factors and the Decision to Use Force by Brian Lawton and Hyeyoung Lim

Chapter 8: Medicolegal Death Investigation Systems and the Challenges in Child Death Investigation in the United States by Brandi McCleskey and Lily Mahler

Chapter 9: International Approaches to Pediatric Medicolegal Death Investigation by Alfredo Walker and Brandi McCleskey