Description
Book SynopsisLorraine Radford is an independent researcher and former Head of Research at the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (NSPCC). Lorraine has many years experience working as an academic researcher, including 15 years experience of university-based research and teaching, her last post being Reader in Criminology at Roehampton University, UK, where she convened the Criminology under graduate programme and co-convened courses on children's rights.
Trade Review‘Lorraine Radford is one of the UK's leading experts on children and young people's experience of violence, abuse and neglect. This brilliant new book synthesizes the findings of a number of new research studies with a critical interrogation of the way children and young people's experiences are constructed politically, popularly in the media, and professionally in social work and criminal justice discourse. The book is packed with worked examples, interviews with leading experts, question-based exercises, and helpful statistics, all of which will prove invaluable to those intervening, teaching, or legislating in this most important of areas. Superbly researched, clearly written, and engaging at so many levels; Rethinking Children, Violence and Safeguarding is a must buy for anyone committed to alleviating the problems of violence experienced and engaged in by children and young people.' David Gadd, Professor of Criminology and Director of the Centre for Criminology and Criminal Justice, University of Manchester, UK
‘Essential reading for all those studying or working with children and young people - this book will challenge and shift our thinking about violence in children's lives.' Nicky Stanley, Professor of Social Work, University of Central Lancashire, UK
Table of ContentsPart I: Debates, Dilemmas and Challenges: Background to Children, Violence and Safeguarding; 1. Introduction; 2. Living In A Violent World?; Part II: An Interdisciplinary Overview of Recent Research and Scholarship; 3. From Child Protection to Safeguarding; 4. Why Violence Happens?; Part III: Implications for Children's Lives; 5. Protection; 6. Overcoming Violence; 7. Prevention; 8. The Child's Voice and the Child's Experience; 9. Conclusion and Further Reading; Index.
