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This chapter presents assessments of the health and social consequences for the victims of childhood violence. It includes a short estimate of the global judicial and economic burdens to society.
‘Childhood is not the shortest period of our lives but the longest as it stays with us until our death’
(Lombardo, 2001)
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© 2008 Einar A. Helander
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Helander, E.A. (2008). Micro-system Consequences and Upstream Effects of Childhood Violence. In: Children and Violence. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230584303_8
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