Overview
- Discusses neighborhoods and communities as critical contexts in child maltreatment
- Explores a diverse body of research from around the globe on various community contexts of parenting
- Provides practitioners, policy makers, and researchers a unique glance into innovative prevention strategies
Part of the book series: Child Maltreatment (MALT, volume 15)
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This volume explores methods for studying child maltreatment in the context of neighborhoods and communities, given their importance in the lives of families. It discusses the ways in which neighborhoods have changed over time and how this that has impacted parenting in the modern context. It also highlights the ways in which policies have contributed to persistent poverty and inequality, which indirectly impacts child maltreatment. An important focus of this volume is to examine the multitude of ways in which the neighborhood context affects families, including structural factors like poverty, segregation, residential instability, and process factors like social cohesion. The volume takes a critical look at the ways in which culture and context affect maltreatment through a community-based approach, and uses this approach to understand child maltreatment in rural areas. The editors and contributors explore innovative prevention approaches and reflect on the future of this field interms of what remains unknown, how the information should be used to guide policy in the future, and how practitioners can best support parents while being mindful of the importance of context.
Addressing an important topic, this volume is of relevance and interest to a wide readership of scholars and students in the social and behavioral sciences, as well as to practitioners and policy makers working with neighborhoods and communities.
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Keywords
- child maltreatment and neighborhoods
- child abuse and neglect and neighborhood
- culture and context in understanding child maltreatment
- residential instability
- community-based prevention efforts
- studying neighborhoods
- neighborhood interventions
- child maltreatment in rural areas
- structural characteristics of child maltreatment
- innovative approaches to preventing child maltreatment
Table of contents (11 chapters)
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Front Matter
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Kathryn Maguire-Jack, PhD, MSW, MPA is Associate Professor of Social Work at the University of Michigan. Her body of research focuses on understanding child maltreatment prevention through the lens of neighborhood and community contexts. She has expertise in advanced statistical methods, program evaluation, and policy research. She is a Doris Duke Fellow for the Promotion of Child Well-Being and a Kempe-Haruv Fellow. Dr. Maguire-Jack is committed to conducting research that improves the lives of children.
Carmit Katz, PhD, is an associate professor at the Bob Shapell School of Social Work at Tel Aviv University and the Director of Research of Haruv Institute. Dr Katz’s studies focus on child maltreatment. Dr Katz is the founder and director of the Israeli Independent Public Inquiry on Child Maltreatment, which spotlights transitional justice through changing policies. During the COVID-19 pandemic, Dr Katz initiated the International Group of Scholars Protecting Children from Maltreatment During COVID-19, with ISPCAN support. Dr Katz is an Associate Editor of Child Abuse and Neglect and the Editor in Chief of the International Journal of Child Maltreatment.
Carmit Katz, PhD, is an associate professor at the Bob Shapell School of Social Work at Tel Aviv University and the Director of Research of Haruv Institute. Dr Katz’s studies focus on child maltreatment. Dr Katz is the founder and director of the Israeli Independent Public Inquiry on Child Maltreatment, which spotlights transitional justice through changing policies. During the COVID-19 pandemic, Dr Katz initiated the International Group of Scholars Protecting Children from Maltreatment During COVID-19, with ISPCAN support. Dr Katz is an Associate Editor of Child Abuse and Neglect and the Editor in Chief of the International Journal of Child Maltreatment.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Neighborhoods, Communities and Child Maltreatment
Book Subtitle: A Global Perspective
Editors: Kathryn Maguire-Jack, Carmit Katz
Series Title: Child Maltreatment
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-93096-7
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-93095-0Published: 02 April 2022
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-93098-1Published: 04 April 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-93096-7Published: 01 April 2022
Series ISSN: 2211-9701
Series E-ISSN: 2211-971X
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VIII, 178
Number of Illustrations: 3 b/w illustrations, 8 illustrations in colour
Topics: Children, Youth and Family Policy, Community and Environmental Psychology, Sociology of Family, Youth and Aging, Public Health, Social Work and Community Development, Social Policy