The study was conducted in October/November 2013. The findings are drawn from an in depth quantitative survey (completed by 30 London boroughs and local safeguarding children boards) and eight semi-structured interviews ...

Millions of children are victims of trafficking and commercial sexual exploitation each year. Governments have responded with a range of measures, focusing primarily on seeking to prosecute perpetrators of these abuses and ...

The past 2 decades have witnessed an increase in dating violence awareness and research. As the field evolves, it is critical to examine the definition and measurement of adolescent dating violence. This article summarizes ...

This section provides a variety of framing tools intended to help advocates apply the framing research on preventing child abuse and neglect to daily practice.

To understand how ACEs appear in the news, we searched for news stories that mentioned adverse childhood experiences from 2008 to 2014 in more than 500 U.S. newspapers, wire services and blogs archived in the Nexis ...

La présente étude a été réalisée en vue de dégager les divers profils familiaux des enfants retenus à la protection de la jeunesse et d’identifier leurs besoins en terme de services. Les analyses portent sur les données ...

Students with disabilities are more likely to be victimized compared to their peers without disabilities. However, not many studies have examined how general education teachers address bullying of students with disabilities ...

Child abuse and neglect often presents with signs on the head and neck, which dental professionals examine on a regular basis. If educated on how to detect and report it in their schools, they can help in solving the problem ...

Workshop participants will be provided with an understanding of Technology Facilitated Child Exploitation Investigations. Actual case examples will be utilized throughout this presentation to illustrate the learning objectives.

The goal of this project was to expand knowledge about the types of violence and abuse experiences youth have via technology (e.g., social networking sites, texting on cell phones), and how the experience of such cyber ...