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[20]: 11 The United States federal Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act defines child abuse and neglect as, at minimum, "any recent act or failure to act on the part of a parent or caretaker which results in death, serious physical or emotional harm, sexual abuse or exploitation" or "an act or failure to act which presents an imminent risk ...
Child Abuse Review is a bimonthly peer-reviewed academic journal with a focus on child protection, including research findings, practice developments, training initiatives and policy issues. It is also the journal of the Association of Child Protection Professionals (AoCPP), formerly the British Association for the Study and Prevention of Child ...
A series of 2001 papers published in the Journal of Child Sexual Abuse discussed and criticized the findings of the Rind et al. study. Stephanie Dallam stated that, after reviewing the evidence, the paper was best described as "an advocacy article that inappropriately uses science in an attempt to legitimatize its findings". [8]
Adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) include childhood emotional, physical, or sexual abuse and household dysfunction during childhood. The categories are verbal abuse, physical abuse, contact sexual abuse, a battered mother/father, household substance abuse, household mental illness, incarcerated household members, and parental separation or divorce.
Child Maltreatment is a peer-reviewed academic journal that publishes papers in the field of psychology, family studies and social work. It has been in publication since 1996 and is currently published by SAGE Publications in association with American Professional Society on the Abuse of Children.
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The paper included research on mandatory reporting of child abuse and proposed an offence of ‘failure to protect’ to mandate persons noticing abnormal injuries of children to report, arousing demand for a mandatory report mechanism for timely intervention in child abuse cases.
Child Abuse & Neglect is a monthly peer-reviewed interdisciplinary social science journal covering child protection. It was established in 1977 and is the official journal of the International Society for Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect. It is published by Elsevier and the editor-in-chief is Christine Wekerle (McMaster University).