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Legal Issues in Violence toward Children

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Contemporary work examining legal issues of violence toward children tends to focus on two basic questions. First, when is it appropriate for the state to intervene in situations of child maltreatment? And second, when the state does intervene, how should it respond to these cases? This chapter will review these two questions, presenting a variety of viewpoints, and, when possible, discussing empirical findings regarding the role of the legal system in cases of child physical abuse, neglect, and sexual abuse.

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  1. Department of Sociology, Social Work, and Criminal Justice, Anderson University, Anderson, Indiana, 46012, USA

    Bruce K. Mac Murray

  2. Department of Criminal Justice and Criminology, Ball State University, Muncie, Indiana, 47306, USA

    Barbara A. Carson

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  1. Western Pennsylvania School for Blind Children, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA

    Robert T. Ammerman

  2. Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA

    Michel Hersen

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Murray, B.K.M., Carson, B.A. (1991). Legal Issues in Violence toward Children. In: Ammerman, R.T., Hersen, M. (eds) Case Studies in Family Violence. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-9582-0_4

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