Family Violence Against Children: A Challenge for Society (Prevention and Intervention in Childhood and Adolescence)

Violence Toward Children In The Family And The Role Of Law / Detlev Frehsee -- The Swedish Ban On Corporal Punishment: Its History And Effects / Joan E. Durrant -- The Swedish 1979 Aga Ban Plus Fifteen / Ake W. Edfeldt -- Changes In Family Sanctioning Styles And The Impact Of Abolishing Corporal Punishment / Kai-d. Bussmann -- Talking About Violence / Heinz Steinert -- Violence And Society -- Violence In Society: Changing Conditions And Perspectives / Heinz Sunker -- War And Communal Violence: Challenges For Children's Development / Kathleen Kostelny And James Garbarino -- Social Change And The Trends In Approval Of Corporal Punishment By Parents From 1968 To 1994 / Murray A. Straus And Anita K. Mathur -- Public Attitudes Toward Corporal Punishment In Canada / Joan E. Durrant -- Sexual And Physical Abuse Of Children: Public Attitudes And Legal Issues / Wiebke Horn -- Community Work: Networking, Activation, Cooperation / Marianne Hege. Compassion Versus Control? Handling Child Abuse In The Netherlands / Adri Van Montfoort -- Governmental Reaction To Child Abuse / Barbara Willenbacher -- The Position Of The Police Between Calls For Help In Crisis And Criminal Prosecution In The Conflict Field Of Family Violence / Thomas Feltes. Edited By Detlev Frehsee, Wiebke Horn, Kai-d. Bussmann. Papers Presented At A Conference Held September 22-24, 1994 At The Center For Interdisciplinary Research, Bielefeld, Organized By A Project Of The Special Research Unit 227: Prevention And Intervention In Childhood And Adolescence. Includes Bibliographical References. Contributors A The Impact of Law Violence Toward Children in the Family and the Role of Law The Swedish Ban on Corporal Punishment: Its History and Effects The Swedish 1979 Aga Ban Plus Fifteen Changes in Family Sanctioning Styles and the Impact of Abolishing Corporal Punishment B Attitudes and Discourses Talking About Violence Violence and Society - Violence in Society: Changing Conditions and Perspectives War and Communal Violence: Challenges for Children's Development Social Change and the Trends in Approval of Corporal Punishment by Parents from 1968 to 1994 Public Attitudes Toward Corporal Punishment in Canada C Formal and Informal Social Control Sexual and Physical Abuse of Children: Public Attitudes and Legal Issues Community Work: Networking, Activation, Cooperation Compassion Versus Control? Handling Child Abuse in the Netherlands Governmental Reaction to Child Abuse The Position of the Police Between Calls for Help in Crisis and Criminal Prosecution in the Conflict Field of Family Violence

The collection contains more than 60 original papers and reflects current research topics in linguistics and text analysis. Most of the papers present recent results of empirical quantitative investigations; others focus on methodological issues, whereas some of them are of a more theoretical, systems-theoretical/semiotic character. Finally, a number of contributions form typical integrative deductive-inductive studies. The volume is a valuable source of information about the current state-of-the-art in quantitative linguistic research, presented by renowned representatives of the field.

We are approaching the problem of family violence from its societal, political, cultural, and civilizational side in that we are less interested in the abuse of the child as an individual error but more in the normality of violent behavior toward children as an expression of the state of a society.