Overview
- Provides the first comprehensive international coverage of key issues in mandatory reporting of child abuse and neglect from their origins to the current day
- A collection of the foremost international experts in this field cover hotly contested debates about the impact and justifiability of the laws, their optimal form, legal and conceptual issues, and practical issues and challenges
- Situates reporting laws within a system of child welfare and family welfare, overcoming the inadequate and self-defeating divide between child protection and family welfare
Part of the book series: Child Maltreatment (MALT, volume 4)
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Table of contents (25 chapters)
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Historical and Current Context of Mandatory Reporting Laws
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Theoretical/Ideological Debates and Issues
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Legal and Conceptual Debates/Issues
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Practical Issues and Challenges for Reporters
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About this book
This book provides the first comprehensive international coverage of key issues in mandatory reporting of child abuse and neglect. The book draws on a collection of the foremost scholars in the field, as well as clinicians and practice-based experts, to explore the nature, history, impact and justifiability of mandatory reporting laws, their optimal form, legal and conceptual issues, and practical issues and challenges for reporters, professional educators and governments. Key issues in non-Western nations are also explored briefly to assess the potential of socio-legal responses sex trafficking, forced child labour and child marriage. The book is of particular value to policy makers, educators and opinion leaders in government departments dealing with children, and to professionals and organisations who work with children. It is also intended to be a key authority for researchers and teachers in the fields of medicine, nursing, social work, education, law, psychology, health and allied health fields.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Mandatory Reporting Laws and the Identification of Severe Child Abuse and Neglect
Editors: Ben Mathews, Donald C. Bross
Series Title: Child Maltreatment
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-9685-9
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Behavioral Science, Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2015
Hardcover ISBN: 978-94-017-9684-2Published: 30 March 2015
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-024-0074-8Published: 09 October 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-94-017-9685-9Published: 17 March 2015
Series ISSN: 2211-9701
Series E-ISSN: 2211-971X
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXV, 564
Number of Illustrations: 17 b/w illustrations
Topics: Quality of Life Research, Civil Law