Child Maltreatment: An Introduction

By Cindy L. Miller-Perrin, Robin Dale Perrin, Robin D. Perrin, et al.

Book Overview

This is a comprehensive text, providing an introduction to current knowledge about various types of violence against children. The author deals with sexual, physical, and emotional child abuse, neglect and the effects of witnessing abuse. The focus is on abuse perpetrated by family members and non-family intimates (the most frequent perpetrators), as well as abuse by strangers. An Instructor′s Manual is available to adopters, who request the manual on their departments′ or organizations′ letterhead.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 076191577X
• ISBN13: 9780761915775
• Release Date: April 1999
• Publisher: SAGE Publications, Inc
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 2.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 10.0" x 1.0" x 7.0"