Children & Childhood Books

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1. International Perspectives on Child Victimisation

   By Julia Davidson, Christopher Hamerton

   International Perspectives on Child Victimisation offers a comprehensive overview of the established themes and emergent debates relating to the abuse and victimisation of children. Highlighting key areas of global concern, and illustrated with detailed case studies of important developments, Julia...

   July 2011 | 978-0-415-57957-5 | Hardback (Routledge)

2. Child Pornography: Law and Policy

   By Alisdair A Gillespie

   Child Pornography: Law and Policy draws on interdisciplinary work in order to critically address the law relating to child pornography. Child pornography is recognised as a specific form of child abuse and there are now many national, and international, efforts to tackle it. Yet despite...

   March 2011 | 978-0-415-49987-3 | Hardback (Routledge-Cavendish)

3. China's One-Child Policy and Multiple Caregiving: Raising Little Suns

   By Esther Goh

   This book examines the social phenomenon in contemporary urban China where grandparents from either or both paternal and maternal lineage, together with the biological parents, revolve themselves around raising the single child who is commonly referred to as ‘little sun’ This endearing term...

   March 2011 | 978-0-415-60250-1 | Hardback (Routledge)

4. Childhood in World History, 2nd Edition

   By Peter Stearns

   Praise for the first edition: 'Those seeking a primer on the field... might well begin here' H-Childhood, H-Net Reviews 'a succinct and deft survey... Undoubtedly this book will be a godsend to teachers... In the assured hands of Stearns, with his readily accessible style, readers will come...

   November 2010 | 978-0-415-59809-5 | Paperback (Routledge)
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   Internet Child Abuse: Current Research and Policy

   Edited by Julia Davidson, Petter Gottschalk

   Internet Child Abuse: Current Research and Policy provides a timely overview of international policy, legislation and offender management and treatment practice in the area of Internet child abuse. Internet use has grown considerably over the last five years, and information technology now forms a...

   July 2010 | 978-0-415-55980-5 | Hardback (Routledge-Cavendish)
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   Young People, Place and Identity

   By Peter E. Hopkins

   Young People, Place and Identity offers a series of rich insights into young people’s everyday lives. What places do young people engage with on a daily basis? How do they use these places? How do their identities influence these contexts? By working through common-sense understandings of young...

   June 2010 | 978-0-415-45439-1 | Paperback (Routledge)

7. Professional Issues in Child and Youth Care Practice

   By Kiaras Gharabaghi

   This book provides an overview of the core professional issues in the field of child and youth care practice. The author explores themes ranging from relationships and the exploration of Self to career building and field-specific approaches to management. The book is written from a pragmatic...

   June 2010 | 978-0-415-58297-1 | Hardback (Routledge)

8. Child Abuse, Gender and Society

   By Jackie Turton

   Traditionally child sexual abuse has been perceived as a male crime, however, recent research suggests that a significant minority of offenders are female. While recognizing the importance of male perpetrators, this groundbreaking book places the behavior of these offending women into social...

   June 2010 | 978-0-415-88294-1 | Paperback (Routledge)
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   Interdependency and Care over the Lifecourse

   By Sophia Bowlby, Linda McKie, Susan Gregory, Isobel Macpherson

   Interdependency and Care over the Lifecourse draws upon theories of time and space to consider how informal care is woven into the fabric of everyday lives and is shaped by social and economic inequalities and opportunities. The book comprises three parts. The first explores contrasting social...

   January 2010 | 978-0-415-43467-6 | Paperback (Routledge)
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    Fathering Through Sport and Leisure

    Edited by Tess Kay

    Fathering is a highly contested concept in popular, media, academic and policy discourses, yet in the areas of family studies and men’s studies the leisure component of family life is under-played. This book provides a long overdue and thorough investigation of the relationship between fatherhood,...

    June 2009 | 978-0-415-43870-4 | Paperback (Routledge)