TY - GEN AU - Lenzer, Gertrud TI - Violence Against Children : : Making Human Rights Real SN - 9781138563261 U1 - 362.76 PY - 2017/// CY - New York : PB - Routledge KW - Children -- Violence against KW - Child abuse -- Law and legislation KW - Child abuse N2 - Table of Contents List of Contributors Foreword Paolo Sérgio Pinheiro Preface : Freedom from Violence for all Children Gertrud Lenzer Acknowledgments 1 General Introduction: Violence against Children: From a Hidden Phenomenon to a Global Concern Marta Santos Pais, Special Representative of the Secretary-General on Violence against Children Part I. General and International Dimensions of Violence against Children 2 Violence against Children: Endemic, Detrimental, Preventable Susan Hillis, James A. Mercy, Howard Kress, Alexander Butchart 3 INSPIRE: Using the Best Evidence to Prevent Violence against Children Alexander Butchart, Susan Hillis, Stephanie Burrows 4 The Global Movement to End All Corporal Punishment of Children Joan E. Durant 5 Confronting Child Exploitation: The Optional Protocols and the Role of Children’s Rights Law Jonathan Todres 6 Violence against Children in Africa Sonia Vohito 7 Violence against Children in the Asia Pacific Region Victor P. Karunan and Neelam Singh 8 Current Perspectives on Violence against Children in Europe Kevin Lalor and Rosaleen McElvaney 9 Violence against Children in Latin America and the Caribbean: A Review of Population-Based Data Avaliable for Measuring Progress Towards the Sustainable Development Goals. Sarah Bott, Alessandra C. Guides, Constanza Hege, Jennifer Adams Mendoza 10 Epigenetic and Multigenerational Impact of Adversity Frances A. Champagne PART II. Violence against Children and the United States 11 Violence in the Lives of Children in the United States Jennifer Vanderminden 12 The U.S. Department of Justice Defending Childhood Initiative: Advancing the Cause of Children Exposed to Violence Phelan Wyrick and Dara Blachman-Demner 13 The Problem of Corporal Punishment and the Solution of Positive Parenting in the United States George W. Holden and Rose Ashraf 14 The Violence of Child Poverty Marian Wright Edelman 15 The Violence of Child Homelessness in the United States Patricia Julianelle and Irene Sauceda 16 The Urgent Need to Disrupt Structural Violence against Children in American Foster Care Ira Lustbader and Elissa Glucksman Hyne 17 School to Prison Pipeline Rosa K. Hirji 18 Racial and Ethnic Disparities of Children in the United States: Pursuing Equity and Engaging Structural Racism in Youth Serving Systems James Bell 19 Youth Prisons as a Form of Violence: An International Human Rights Perspective Vincent Schiraldi ER -