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Child protection systems : international trends and orientations / edited by Neil Gilbert, Nigel Parton, Marit Skivenes.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- International policy exchange series.
- International policy exchange series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Child welfare.
- Child abuse.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (284 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York, N.Y. : Oxford University Press, c2011.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This vital book is a comparative study of the social policies and professional practices that frame societal responses to the problems of child maltreatment in ten countries.
- Contents:
- Anglo-American systems
- Trends and issues in the U.S. child welfare system / Jill Duerr Berrick
- Canadian child welfare : child protection and the status quo / Karen Swift
- Child protection in England / Nigel Parton and David Berridge
- Nordic systems
- The dark side of the universal welfare state? : child abuse and protection in Sweden / Madeleine Cocozza and Sven E. O. Hort
- Combatting child abuse in Finland : from family to child-centered orientation / Tarja Poso
- Denmark : a child welfare system under reframing / Anne-Dorthe Hestbk
- Norway : towards a child-centric perspective / Marit Skivenes
- Continental systems
- Child protection in an age of uncertainty : Germany's response / Reinhart Wolff, Kay Biesel, and Stefan Heinitz
- Policy towards child abuse and neglect in Belgium : in search of a democratic
- Approach / Kristof Desair and Peter Adriaenssens
- Child welfare in the Netherlands : between privacy and protection / Trudie Knijn and Carolus van Nijnatten
- Conclusion
- Changing patterns of response and emerging orientations / Neil Gilbert, Nigel Parton, and Marit Skivenes.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on May 11, 2011).
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-979343-3
- 1-283-42309-X
- 9786613423092
- OCLC:
- 741939507
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