Victim, Perpetrator, or What Else?

Doris Bühler-Niederberger is Professor of Sociology at the University of Wuppertal, Germany. Her recent research projects and publications have concerned childhood as a domain of professional, moral and political interest and images of childhood and children in public and professional debates.Lars Alberth is Research Associate at the Institute for Sociology, Leibniz University, Germany. His research comprises studies on symbolic fabrication of social categories through the lens of organizations and professions, especially gender and generation in child protection as well as social inequalities.

• Part I: Perceptions and Definitions Chapter 1. The Rhetorical Idiom of Unreason: On Labeling in Child Protection; Lars Alberth  Chapter 2. The Perpetration of Fatal Child Maltreatment: It's the Men Who Are Bad, Right? Emily M. Douglas and Kerry A. LeeChapter 3. The Definitions Are Legion: Academic Views and Practice Perspectives On Violence Against Children; Andreas Jud and Peter Voll  Chapter 4. Putting Definitions to Work: Reflection From The Canadian Domestic Homicide Prevention Initiative With Vulnerable Populations; Jordan Fairbairn, Danielle Sutton, Myrna Dawson and Peter Jaffe  PART II: Institutional Reactions Chapter 5. Naughty Or Bad: Children And Crime; Robert van Krieken Chapter 6. Perceptions Of Violence Within Child Protection Systems In Russia: Views Of Children, Parents, And Social Workers; Veronika Odinokova, Maia Rusakova and Vladlena Avdeeva  PART III: Conditions of Change: Global, National and Local Chapter 7. Exploring the Role of Gender Norms In Shaping Adolescents' Experiences Of Violence In Pastoralist Afar; Ethiopia; Nicola Jones, Yitagesu Gebeyeh, and Joan Hamory Hicks  Chapter 8. Governing Childhood in India: The Up-Hill Battle to Abolish Child Marriage; Elvira Graner  Chapter 9. Child Marriage in Kyrgyzstan: Exploring Institutional Ambivalences in Constructing The "Victim"; Elena Kim Chapter 10. Child Marriage and Sexual Violence in The United States; Jamie O'Quinn

This volume contains 10 essays on the generational and gender aspects of children and youth as victims and perpetrators of violence. Sociology and other specialists from Europe and North America consider the perception and definition of violence against children, including relevant gender aspects; how societies react towards violence; and the social conditions for these responses. They discuss the perceptions of child welfare workers in child protection services in Germany and the US, conditions influencing the identification of parental behavior as harming a child, and the definition of a domestic homicide; the reactions of social institutions like the criminal justice system in England and Australia and child protection systems in Russia; and conditions for responses towards violence against children, in the context of the role of evolving gender norms in Ethiopia, the battle against child marriage in India and Kyrgyzstan, and child marriage and sexual violence in the US. Distributed in North America by Turpin Distribution.