Child Abuse and Human Rights (2 Vols-Set)

Contents: Vol. I. Preface. 1. Understanding of child abuse. 2. Defining and measuring the extend of child abuse. 3. Child abuse statistics, research and resources. 4. Child abuse: forms of abuse. 5. Who abuses whom? 6. Law Commission of India's consultation paper on witness protection. 7. Psychology and child abuse. 8. Imaging of the abused child. 9. Sexual abuse of children. 10. Sexual abuse of street children brought to an observation home. 11. Child abuse and family violence: implications for medical professionals.

Vol. II. 12. The causation of child abuse. 13. The consequences of child abuse. 14. The fate of abused children: an assessment. 15. Social work intervention in cases of child abuse. 16. Protective casework and child abuse: practice and problems. 17. Some studies of families in which children suffer maltreatment. 18. Social development issues. 19. Children of Commercial Sex Workers (CSWs) in the district of Siddhartha Nagar in Uttar Pradesh. 20. Sexual harassment of women at their work place. 21. Child trafficking continues to threaten young women in India. 22. Developing community drug rehabilitation and prevention programmes. 23. Issue in child protection work. Appendices. Bibliography. Index.

"Child abuse involves several aspects, such as, sexual exploitation, domestic violence, abuse of domestic aids, trafficking for prostitution, corporal punishment at school and others. Child abuse also include physical, mental, social, psychological and neglect. However, the most widely accepted definition of child abuse given by David Gil states that "child abuse is the intentional, non-accidental use of physical force, or intentional, non-accidental acts of omission on the part of a parent or other caretaker interacting with a child in his care aimed at hurting, injuring or destroying that child". There are several forms of child abuse viz., neglect, physical, mental, verbal, emotional, sexual abuse, rape, incest, Commercial Sexual Exploitation (CSE), pornography, sex tourism, net crimes, child marriage, child labour, female infanticide, female genital mutilation etc. The present book discusses all these issues." (jacket)