Includes bibliographical references and index.

The rhetorical idiom of unreason: on labeling in child protection / Lars Alberth -- The perpetration of fatal child maltreatment: it's the men who are bad, Right? / Emily M. Douglas and Kerry A. Lee -- The definitions are legion: academic views and practice perspectives on violence against children / Andreas Jud and Peter Voll -- Putting definitions to work: reflection from the canadian domestic homicide prevention initiative with vulnerable populations / Jordan Fairbairn, Danielle Sutton, Myrna Dawson and Peter Jaffe -- Naughty or bad: children and crime / Robert van Krieken -- Perceptions of violence within child protection systems in Russia: views of children, parents, and social workers / Veronika Odinokova, Maia Rusakova and Vladlena Avdeeva -- Exploring the role of gender norms in shaping adolescents' experiences of violence in pastoralist afar: Ethiopia / Nicola Jones, Yitagesu Gebeyeh, and Joan Hamory Hicks -- Governing childhood in India: the up-hill battle to abolish child marriage / Elvira Graner -- Child marriage in Kyrgyzstan: exploring institutional ambivalences in constructing The "Victim" / Elena Kim -- Child marriage and sexual violence in the United States / Jamie O'Quinn.

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