Child Protection Systems : International Trends and Orientations
ISBN: 9780199793358 | 0199793352
Format: HardcoverPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Pub. Date: 5/27/2011
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Child Protection Systems is a comparative study of the social policies and professional practices that frame societal responses to the problems of child maltreatment in ten countries: USA, Canada, England, Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Belgium, the Netherlands, Germany and Norway. Focusing on the developments in policy and practice since the mid-1990s, this volume provides a detailed, up-to-date analysis of the similarities and differences in how child protection systems operate and their outcomes. The findings highlight the changing criteria that ... MORE
| Contributors | p. vii |
| Acknowledgments | p. ix |
| Introduction | p. 3 |
| Anglo-American Systems | |
| Trends and Issues in the U.S. Child Welfare System | p. 17 |
| Canadian Child Welfare: Child Protection and the Status Quo | p. 36 |
| Child Protection in England | p. 60 |
| Nordic Systems | |
| The Dark Side of the Universal Welfare State? Child Abuse and Protection in Sw... MORE | p. 89 |
| Combatting Child Abuse in Finland: From Family to Child-Centered Orientation | p. 112 |
| Denmark: A Child Welfare System Under Reframing | p. 131 |
| Norway: Toward a Child-Centric Perspective | p. 154 |
| Continental Systems | |
| Child Protection in an Age of Uncertainty: Germany's Response | p. 183 |
| Policy Toward Child Abuse and Neglect in Belgium: Shared Responsibility, Differentiated Response | p. 204 |
| Child Welfare in the Netherlands: Between Privacy and Protection | p. 223 |
| Conclusion | |
| Changing Patterns of Response and Emerging Orientations | p. 243 |
| Index | p. 259 |
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