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Research output: Contribution to Journal/Magazine › Journal article › peer-review
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TY - JOUR
T1 - The Prevention of Child Abuse
AU - Wattam, Corinne
PY - 1999
Y1 - 1999
N2 - An apparent practice oriented consensus that child abuse can and should be prevented covers over considerable conflict in ideology, interest and conceptual understanding. Three current approaches to the prevention of child abuse are reviewed: clinical health led risk assessment models, broader social reform strategies and criminal justice youth victimisation models. Sources of contradiction are explored through the definitions of child abuse underpinning different strategies. The paper proposes a change in the language of child protection, away from child abuse towards specified avoidable harm.
AB - An apparent practice oriented consensus that child abuse can and should be prevented covers over considerable conflict in ideology, interest and conceptual understanding. Three current approaches to the prevention of child abuse are reviewed: clinical health led risk assessment models, broader social reform strategies and criminal justice youth victimisation models. Sources of contradiction are explored through the definitions of child abuse underpinning different strategies. The paper proposes a change in the language of child protection, away from child abuse towards specified avoidable harm.
U2 - 10.1002/CHI568
DO - 10.1002/CHI568
M3 - Journal article
VL - 13
SP - 317
EP - 329
JO - Children and Society
JF - Children and Society
SN - 0951-0605
IS - 4
ER -