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BL
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723667
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b543382
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| Main Entry
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Einar A. Helander ; forewords by Halfdan Mahler and H.D. Deve Gowda.
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| Title & Author
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Children and violence : : the world of the defenceless\ Einar A. Helander ; forewords by Halfdan Mahler and H.D. Deve Gowda.
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| Publication Statement
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Basingstoke [England] ; New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008
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(xxiv, 334 pages) : illustrations
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| ISBN
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0230584306
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: 9780230584303
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| Contents
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Part I: Introduction. You cut a rose and release a tornado --;Definitions, materials and methods --;Mirrors of the past --;Part II: Micro-system violence towards biological and social orphans. Children in residential institutions --;Children on their own --;Parent deprivation: consequences and alternatives --;Part III: Damaging effects of the meso-system: childhood violence in birth families and its consequences. Prevalence of childhood violence --;Micro-system consequences and upstream effects of childhood violence --;Part IV: Roots of violence. Causes of and contributors to childhood violence and the potential for primary prevention --;Human services for the child victims: care of somatic and mental disorders and rehabilitation --;Part V: The global system: perspectives of human rights, evolution, development and progress. Human rights and human wrongs --;Poverty, inequality and solidarity --;The sacrifice of the poor --;Part VI: Primary child violence prevention by exo-systems. A community-based child defense and support (CDS) programme --;Conclusion.
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This book provides a disturbing account of the reality of child abuse. Based on data from 152 countries, Einar Helander considers the physical, societal, economic and judicial consequences of child abuse, proposing a universal, community-based prevention programme.
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Child abuse.
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Children -- Institutional care.
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Children -- Violence against.
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HV6626.5E363 2008
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Einar Helander
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