Handbook of Children, Culture, and Violence

Nancy E. Dowd - University of Florida Levin College of Law
Dorothy G. Singer - Yale University, USA
Robin Fretwell Wilson - Washington and Lee University, USA

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Child Development | Public Policy & Public Administration | Social Problems

February 2006 | 536 pages | SAGE Publications, Inc

This Handbook provides a comprehensive, interdisciplinary examination of childhood violence for students, scholars, and policymakers. A great many books have been published on children and violence, but the majority approach the topic from a single disciplinary perspective and most often concentrate on children as victims of violence. In contrast, this book incorporates perspectives from across disciplinary bounds - psychology and human development, commnication, family law and public policy, criminology, human services - and examines children as consumers and perpetrators of violence, as well as victims, for the broadest possible view on the impact of a culture of violence in children's lives.

Nancy E. Dowd

Introduction

Dorothy G. Singer

Prologue: Developmental Variations Among Children and Adolescents: An Overview of the Research and Policy Implications

Part I. Children as Victims

Naomi Cahn

1. Child Witnessing of Domestic Violence

Thomas D. Lyon and Mindy B. Mechanic

2. Domestic Violence and Child Protection: Confronting the Dilemmas in Moving From Family Court to Dependency Court

Robin Fretwell Wilson

3. Sexually Predatory Parents and the Children in Their Care: Remove the Threat, Not the Child

Diana E.H. Russell and Natalie Purcell

4. Exposure to Pornography as a Cause of Child Sexual Victimization

Ross E. Cheit and Laura Braslow

5. Statutory Rape: An Empirical Examination of Claims of “Overreaction”

Charles Putnam and David Finkelhor

6. Mitigating the Impact of Publicity on Child Crime Victims and Witnesses

Part II. Children as Consumers of Violence

John Cech

7. The Violent Shadows of Children’s Culture

Nancy Signorielli

8. A Preliminary Demography of Television Violence

Joanne Cantor

9. Protecting Children’s Welfare in an Anxiety-Provoking Media Environment

Barbara J. Wilson and Nicole Martins

10. The Impact of Violent Music on Youth

Dale Kunkel and Lara Zwarun

11. How Real Is the Problem of TV Violence? Research and Policy Perspectives

Douglas A. Gentile and Craig A. Anderson

12. Violent Video Games: Effects on Youth and Public Policy Implications

Laurie N. Taylor

13. Positive Features of Video Games

Brendesha Tynes

14. Children, Adolescents, and the Culture of Online Hate

Catherine J. Ross

15. Constitutional Obstacles to Regulating Violence in the Media

Part III. Children as Perpetrators of Violence

Susan P. Limber

16. Peer Victimization: The Nature and Prevalence of Bullying Among Children and Youth

Ellen de Lara

17. Bullying and Violence in American Schools

Mark R. Fondacaro and Lauren G. Fasig

18. Judging Juvenile Responsibility: A Social Ecological Perspective

Richard E. Redding

19. Adult Punishment for Juvenile Offenders: Does It Reduce Crime?

Matthew Owen Howard, Michael K. Dayton, Kirk A. Foster, Michael G. Vaughn and John L. Zelner

20. Psychopathy Assessment and Juvenile Justice Mental Health Evaluations

Barbara Bennett Woodhouse

21. Cleaning Up Toxic Violence: An EcoGenerist Paradigm

"Addresses childhood and adolescent violence from a fresh perspective: the experiential world of the child and adolescent. This is needed….The editors have succeeded in organizing an impressive, interdisciplinary group of contributors. Balanced and thorough, the book should be very appealing to the intended audiences….It integrates a wide scope of material under the general topic, and by an excellent cadre of contributors."

James Howell

National Youth Gang Center

"By bringing together the literatures and crossing disciplinary lines, the book should have wide cross-disciplinary appeal….The key strength is the idea of an integrated approach to children and violence that includes children as consumers, victims, and perpetrators of violence….I think that any scholar working in the area of child and family violence would like a book like this one….It advances understanding of children and violence and is an excellent resource book for policy makers."

Elizabeth D. Hutchison

Virginia Commonwealth University

"…an excellent contribution to diverse fields (e.g., psychology, law, sociology)….The content is broad but appropriate in each of the three sections."

Eric F. Dubow

Bowling Green State University

"A book with a unique perspective that will bring together research across several disciplines. It's helpful to have such a single source that provides an overview of the research on children and violence in several different contexts."

Amy Nathanson

Ohio State University

"The Editors and Contributors to this volume are excellent. I am especially familiar with Dr. Singer's work, which is superb."

Brad Bushman

University of Michigan

"The papers are well written and reflect timely information that is well documented from research, and also explore policy implications within each area."

D. S. Pierson

Idaho State University

"Each chapter contains recommendations for legislators, policy makers, researchers, and families. This book should be on the desk, and minds, of legislators, attorneys, social workers and other mental health professionals who encounter and wish to ameliorate the effects of violence in the lives of their young constituents, clients, and patients."

—JOURNAL OF CHILD AND FAMILY STUDIES

Pamela R. Melton

University of South Carolina

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