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Child Maltreatment: An Introduction

Child Maltreatment: An Introduction

by RobinD.(Dale)Perrin (Author), Cindy L . Miller - Perrin (Author)

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    Paperback 1999

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Synopsis

This is is a comprehensive book, providing an introduction to current knowledge about various types of violence against children.

The author deals with sexual, physical and emotional child abuse, neglect and the effects of witnessing abuse. The focus is on abuse perpetrated by family members and non-family intimates (the most frequent perpetrators), but abuse by strangers is also considered.

An Instructor's Manual is available to adopters, who request the manual on their departments' or organizations' letterhead.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 368
 Edition: annotated edition
 Publisher: Sage Publications, Inc
Published: 18 May 1999
ISBN 10: 0761915788
ISBN 13: 9780761915782

Author Bio
Robin D. Perrin is currently Professor of Sociology at Pepperdine University in Malibu, California. His research interests and publications are in the areas of interpersonal violence, deviance theory, the social construction of social problems, and the sociology of religion. He is the coauthor of three books: Social Deviance: Being, Behaving, and Branding (with D. Ward & T. Carter, 1991), Child Maltreatment: An Introduction (with C. Miller-Perrin, Sage, 1999; 2007), and Family Violence Across the Lifespan (with O. Barnett & C. Miller-Perrin, Sage, 1997, 2005; 2011). He is the author or coauthor of numerous articles on a variety of topics related to religion, deviance, and interpersonal violence. He is the recipient of the 2004 Howard A. White Award for Teaching Excellence. He received his doctorate in sociology from Washington State University in 1989. Following his doctoral studies he was Assistant Professor of Sociology at Seattle Pacific University in Seattle, Washington.