Public Interest: Panel calls child abuse a 'national emergency'

This chapter focusses its attention on the associated crimes of child-abuse and child-murder. Crimes which, as a consequence of the public interest they stimulate, must be comprehended within an often febrile cultural context. The chapter looks at a number of modern plays which address these crimes, including various contributions to the ‘in-yer-face’ genre. Its closer focus, however, is on on Bryony Lavery’s Frozen, a play which can be more squarely categorised as ‘realist’. In so doing, the chapter further considers the merits and demerits of strategies of ‘restorative’ justice. It is argued that the rooting of restorative justice, in associated ideas of compassion and empathy, makes it a peculiarly literate jurisprudence.

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Psychological maltreatment: Can an integration of research, policy, and intervention efforts be achieved?

Development and Psychopathology ◽

10.1017/s0954579400005149 ◽

1991 ◽

Vol 3 (1) ◽

pp. 103-109 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Sheree L. Toth

Keyword(s):

Child Abuse ◽

Research Policy ◽

Critical Time ◽

Psychological Maltreatment ◽

Service Delivery System ◽

Abuse And Neglect ◽

Life Threatening ◽

State Of Affairs ◽

National Emergency ◽

Abused And Neglected Children

McGee and Wolfe's (1991) article has emerged at a critical time, a period during which child abuse and neglect has been declared a national emergency. In the last decade, reports of child abuse have increased dramatically. Unfortunately, the resources available to address the needs of maltreated children have not kept pace with the demand. This distressing state of affairs has caused some social policy theorists to conclude that only the most seriously abused and neglected children should be identified and served so as not to weaken further an already fragile service delivery system (Besharov, 1988; Wald, 1975). In fact, in the absence of greatly enhanced resources, some child advocates have argued that intervention into family life in other than life threatening circumstances may prove to be more detrimental than helpful (Goldstein, Freud, & Solnit, 1979).

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KEKERASAN SIMBOLIK MEDIA TERHADAP ANAK

KOMUNIKA Jurnal Dakwah dan Komunikasi ◽

10.24090/komunika.v4i1.139 ◽

1970 ◽

Vol 4 (1) ◽

pp. 72-90

Author(s):

Elya Munfarida

Keyword(s):

Child Abuse ◽

Sexual Harassment ◽

Public Interest ◽

Deviant Behavior ◽

Symbolic Violence ◽

Economic Interests ◽

The Public ◽

Information Tools ◽

The People ◽

The Media

Various social anomalies that occurred in this nation can represent the people (individuals) who are "sick". Thevalues of this nation in reality have not been able to effectively stem the rampant phenomenon of anomalies above. Variousfactors can cause the condition, such as ineffective value education in schools, families or communities; ungroundeddakwah; or media that is not impartial public interest. Media as one of information tools, considered to have significantinfluence to child's destructive and deviant behavior. Programs that aired in fact be counterproductive to the improvementof children's human qualities. This can be seen from several cases of child abuse and sexual harassment was motivated bythe impression of violence and pornography in the media. In this context, this paper tries to study the symbolic violence frommedia to the children (world) by presenting programs of violence and pornography in its various forms. Economic interests ofpolitical domination has made the media ignores the public interest, especially children by creating programs that do noteducate and inculcate the values of violence

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Public Disclosure of Private Information About Victims of Abuse

PEDIATRICS ◽

10.1542/peds.82.3.387 ◽

1988 ◽

Vol 82 (3) ◽

pp. 387-387

Author(s):

Keyword(s):

Child Abuse ◽

Physical Abuse ◽

Public Interest ◽

Private Information ◽

Public Disclosure ◽

Great Caution ◽

The Public ◽

American Academy Of Pediatrics ◽

Abuse And Neglect ◽

The Media

Publication of information about child abuse victims and their families may be detrimental to the victims. This is particularly true of sexual abuse but may be just as serious in some cases of physical abuse and neglect. Many states lack laws that restrict publicity on child abuse victims and their families. As a result serious harm to children has occurred. The American Academy of Pediatrics recommends that all states adopt laws forbidding public disclosure in the mass media of information that identifies victims of child abuse, their families, and perpetrators, who may be minors, unless ordered by a judge who has jurisdiction, as in a dependency hearing or in the trial of a perpetrator. The judge's criteria for public disclosure should be that the public interest in the case is already great and that the risk of harm to the child is small. Furthermore, the Academy recommends that the media exercise great caution in publishing any information that includes the names of victims of sexual or physical abuse.

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‘A Serious Injustice to the Individual’: British Child Migration to Australia as Policy Failure

UK Child Migration to Australia, 1945-1970 - Palgrave Studies in the History of Childhood ◽

10.1007/978-3-030-69728-0_1 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 1-22

Author(s):

Gordon Lynch

Keyword(s):

Child Abuse ◽

Child Welfare ◽

Public Interest ◽

The United Kingdom ◽

Unaccompanied Children ◽

Child Migration ◽

Institutional Contexts ◽

Post War ◽

The Individual ◽

The Uk

AbstractThe Introduction sets this book in the wider context of recent studies and public interest in historic child abuse. Noting other international cases of child abuse in the context of public programmes and other institutional contexts, it is argued that children’s suffering usually arose not from an absence of policy and legal protections but a failure to implement these effectively. The assisted migration of unaccompanied children from the United Kingdom to Australia is presented, particularly in the post-war period, as another such example of systemic failures to maintain known standards of child welfare. The focus of the book on policy decisions and administrative systems within the UK Government is explained and the relevance of this study to the historiography of child migration and post-war child welfare is also set out.

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