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Book SynopsisIn Unsafe Home: Child Harming within the Family, Limor Ezioni focuses on the three major types of child harming within the family—abuse, incest, and filicide—and provides an in-depth exploration of each type historically, legally, and comparatively. In the first part, focusing on abuse executed on children, Ezioni addresses both physical and emotional abuse, discussing what constitutes child abuse, how it should be punished, and whether any damage caused to a child is prosecutable by law. In the second part of the book, Ezioni examines childhood incest, focusing on adult survivors and the multitude of legal problems they face while attempting to pursue justice through the legal system and questioning whether the current legal and criminal provisions provide sufficient protection for survivors. In the final section of the book, Ezioni examine the filicide phenomenon and how the judicial system in western countries deals with the painful reality that reflects the society in which it occurs—filicide is often carried out by parents who are unable to function as a parent in circumstances dictated by the place and time in which they live. Scholars of legal studies, family studies, criminology, and sociology will find this book particularly useful.
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments
Part 1: Abuse
Chapter 1: Aspects of Abuse
Chapter 2: Social Factors
Chapter 3: Preventing Abuse
Chapter 4: The Role of the Law
Chapter 5: Comparative Law
Chapter 6: The Aftermath of Abuse
Part 2: Incest
Chapter 7: The Social-Cultural Background to the Prohibition on Incest
Chapter 8: The Prohibition on Incest: Rationales and Developments
Chapter 9: The Psychological-Legal Background of Incest
Chapter 10: The Contribution of the Feminist Movement
Chapter 11: Incest in Common Law and in American Law
Chapter 12: Late Reporting and Delay in Filing a Complaint
Chapter 13: Legal Solutions to the Problem of the Limitation Period
Chapter 14: The Legal Status of Reconstructed Repressed Trauma Memories
Part 3: Filicide
Chapter 15: Historical Background
Chapter 16: The Protected Values
Chapter 17: Neonaticide
Chapter 18: Infanticide
Chapter 19: Filicide
Chapter 20: Safe Haven Statutes
Chapter 21: A Look to the Future: Proposals for Detection and Prevention
Bibliography
Index
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