Child Maltreatment: An Introduction - Softcover

Miller-Perrin, Cindy L.; Perrin, Robin D.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0761915788 ISBN 13: 9780761915782

Publisher: SAGE Publications, Inc, 1999

Synopsis

This is a comprehensive text, providing an introduction to current knowledge about various types of violence against children. The author deals with sexual, physical, and emotional child abuse, neglect and the effects of witnessing abuse. The focus is on abuse perpetrated by family members and non-family intimates (the most frequent perpetrators), as well as abuse by strangers. An Instructor′s Manual is available to adopters, who request the manual on their departments′ or organizations′ letterhead.

About this title

About the Author:

Robin D. Perrin is currently Professor of Sociology at Pepperdine University in Malibu, California. His research interests and publications are in the areas of interpersonal violence, deviance theory, the social construction of social problems, and the sociology of religion. He is the coauthor of three books: Social Deviance: Being, Behaving, and Branding (with D. Ward & T. Carter, 1991), Child Maltreatment: An Introduction (with C. Miller-Perrin, Sage, 1999; 2007), and Family Violence Across the Lifespan (with O. Barnett & C. Miller-Perrin, Sage, 1997, 2005; 2011). He is the author or coauthor of numerous articles on a variety of topics related to religion, deviance, and interpersonal violence. He is the recipient of the 2004 Howard A. White Award for Teaching Excellence. He received his doctorate in sociology from Washington State University in 1989. Following his doctoral studies he was Assistant Professor of Sociology at Seattle Pacific University in Seattle, Washington.

About this edition

• Publisher: SAGE Publications, Inc
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0761915788
• ISBN 13: 9780761915782
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 368