Preface : freedom from violence for all children / Gertrud Lenzer
General introduction : violence against children : from a hidden phenomenon to a global concern / Marta Santos Pais, Special Representative of the Secretary-General on Violence against Children
General and international dimensions of violence against children
Violence against children : endemic, detrimental, preventable / Susan Hillis, James A. Mercy, Howard Kress, Alexander Butchart
Inspire : using the best evidence to prevent violence against children / Alexander Butchart, Susan Hillis, Stephanie Burrows
The global movement to end all corporal punishment of children / Joan E. Durant
Confronting child exploitation : the optional protocols and the role of children's rights law / Jonathan Todres
Violence against children in Africa / Sonia Vohito
Violence against children in the Asia Pacific Region / Victor P. Karunan and Neelam Singh
Current perspectives on violence against children in Europe / Kevin Lalor and Rosaleen McElvaney
Violence against children in Latin America and the Caribbean / Sarah Bott, Alessandra C. Guedes, Constanza Hege, Jennifer Adams Mendoza
Epigenetic and multigenerational impact of adversity / Frances A. Champagne
Violence against children and the United States
Violence against children in the United States / Jennifer Vanderminden
The U.S. Department of Justice defending childhood initiative : advancing the cause of children exposed to violence / Phelan Wyrick and Dara Blachman-Demner
The problem of corporal punishment and the solution of positive parenting in the United States / George W. Holden and Rose Ashraf
The violence of child poverty in the United States / Marian Wright Edelman
The violence of child homelessness in the United States / Patricia Julianelle and Irene Sauceda
The urgent need to disrupt structural violence against children in American foster care / Ira Lustbader and Elissa Glucksman Hyne
School to prison pipeline in the United States / Rosa K. Hirji
Racial and ethnic disparities of children in the United States : pursuing equity and engaging structural racism in youth serving systems / James Bell
Youth prison as a form of violence : an international human rights perspective / Vincent Schiraldi
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