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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.
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 Pösö -- Denmark : a child welfare system under reframing / Anne-Dorthe Hestbæk -- 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.
edited by Neil Gilbert, Nigel Parton, Marit Skivenes.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
New York, NY : Oxford University Press, ©2011