Violence Against Children: Physical Child Abuse in the United States

by David G. Gil

For this volume Gil examines and interprets a series of nationwide studies of child abuse that were initiated in 1965 in an attempt to unravel the context of social and cultural forces with which violent behavior against children is associated. He begins with a definition: "Physical abuse of children is the intentional, nonaccidental use of physical force, or intentional nonaccidental acts of omission, on the part of a parent or other caretaker interacting...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674939425
• ISBN13: 9780674939424
• Release Date: January 1978
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 230 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.3" x 8.2"