Victim, Perpetrator, or What Else? : Generational and Gender Perspectives on Children, Youth, and Violence.

Cover -- Victim, Perpetrator, or What Else? Generational and Gender Perspectives on Children, Youth, and Violence -- Contents -- About the Contributors -- Introduction: Children and Violence - A Blind Spot of Sociology -- The Generational and Gender Bias in Approaching Violence -- Sociology of Violence - Peaceful Modernity? -- A New Sociology of Violence as Emerging Field - Beyond Generation -- Victimology - a Sidestep Towards the Child in the Name of Social Control -- Our Direction: Violence and Generational Order -- Contextualizing the Contributions -- Perceptions and Definitions -- Institutional Reactions -- Conditions of Change - Global, National, and Local Actors -- References -- PART I. Perceptions and Definitions -- The Rhetorical Idiom of Unreason: On Labelling in Child Protection -- Introduction -- Child Protection as Social Problems Rhetoric -- The German Child Protection System -- Methods -- Results -- Rhetorical Irrelevance of Violence -- The Irresponsible Mother and Her Limited Agency -- Children: Ignored and Troubling -- Deflection of Responsibility -- Assignment of Causes -- Conclusions -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Appendix -- The Perpetration of Fatal Child Maltreatment: It's the Men Who Are Bad, Right? -- Introduction -- Child Maltreatment Fatalities: Definitions, Prevalence Rates, and Government Responses -- Victimization, Perpetration, and Risk Factors for Child Maltreatment Fatalities -- Differences in Case Characteristics When Perpetrator is Mother's Male Partner -- Misperceptions Among Professionals -- Potential Reasons for Misperceptions Concerning Gender in the Perpetration of Child Maltreatment Fatalities -- History and Culture in the Idealization of Women -- The Intersecting Areas of Child Neglect and Accidents -- Gender and Criminal Charges Filed in Cases of Maltreatment Fatalities -- Implications -- Notes.

References -- The Definitions Are Legion: Academic Views and Practice Perspectives on Violence Against Children -- Introduction -- Conceptual Issues -- The Configuration of Persons Implied: Victims and Perpetrators -- Lack of Operationalization. Who Is a Child and Beyond -- Perpetrators -- Characteristics of Violent Acts and Omissions -- Do Acts Have to be Malevolent? -- Consent and Power Differentials -- Neglecting the Neglect -- Witnessing Intimate Partner Violence as a Separate Category? -- Additional Forms of Violence Against Children -- Thresholds -- Applying Child Maltreatment Definitions in Swiss Child Protection Practice -- Legal Threshold for Intervention -- Variety of Frameworks -- Lacking (Documentation of) Definitions -- Difficulties in the Perception of Neglect and Psychological Maltreatment -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Putting Definitions to Work: Reflections from the Canadian Domestic Homicide Prevention Initiative with Vulnerable Populations -- Introduction -- Approaches to Defining Domestic Homicide -- Domestic Violence Death Review Committees -- The Canadian Domestic Homicide Prevention Initiative with Vulnerable Populations (CDHPIVP) -- Definition of Domestic Homicide -- Terminology -- Intimate Partner Homicide and Family Homicide -- Male Victims -- LGBTQ Relationships -- Defining Dating Relationships -- Collateral Victims -- Non-intimate Partner Perpetrators -- Defining Homicides by Other Names -- The Tip of the Iceberg: Understanding the Extent of Lives Lost to Domestic Violence -- Domestic Homicide, Domestic Violence-related Homicides, and Domestic Violence-related Deaths -- Undercounting Vulnerable Populations -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Part II. Institutional Reactions -- Naughty or Bad: Children and Crime. -- Introduction -- The Foundations of doli incapax.

Critiques, Problems, and Divergences in English Law -- The English High Hurdle Approach -- The Low-hurdle Approach -- Crime and the Modern, Normalized Child -- Conclusion: Doli incapax, Childhood and Moral Community -- Notes -- References -- Table of Court Cases -- Perceptions of Violence within Child Protection Systems in Russia: Views of Children, Parents, and Social Workers -- Introduction -- Children's Visibility: A Qualitative and Quantitative Study on Child Protection in St. Petersburg -- Study Design -- Sample -- Data Collection -- Data Analysis -- Results -- Consensus and Differences in Recognizing the Child's Victim Status -- Conditions for Recognizing the Child as a Victim -- Interventions When the Child is Recognized as a Victim -- Discussion -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Part III. Conditions of Change - Global, National, and Local -- Exploring the Role of Evolving Gender Norms in Shaping Adolescents' Experiences of Violence in Pastoralist Afar, Ethiopia -- Introduction -- Conceptual Framing -- Methods -- Data Collection -- Data Analysis -- Key Findings -- Understanding the Afar Context -- Micro-level Context of Violence against Adolescence -- Meso-level Context of Violence against Adolescents -- Macro-level Context of Violence against Adolescents -- Conclusions -- Notes -- References -- Appendix -- Governing childhood in India: the up-hill battle to abolish child marriage -- Introduction -- The Phenomenology and "Hilly Landscape" of Child Marriage in India -- Conceptualizing Child Marriage: Structural Violence and (Mal-)Governance -- The (Mal-)Governance of Child Marriage in India -- Governing Citizenship - the State and its (Selective) Services -- Governing Citizenship - Strengthening the Battle Against Child Marriage -- References -- Appendix.

Child Marriage in Kyrgyzstan: Exploring Institutional Ambivalences in Constructing the "Victim" -- Introduction -- Kyrgyzstan: International and Domestic Legal Framework -- Child Marriage in Kyrgyzstan: Socio-political Context -- Methodological and Analytic Framework: Institutional Ethnography -- Following the Research Problematic: From Individual Experiences to Institutional Power -- Analysis: Research Problematic Emerges from the Standpoint of the Child Brides -- Pursuing the Problematic: The Standpoint of Secondary School Workers -- Social Organization of Case Management in Schools: National and International Involvement -- Discursive Coordination: "School without Violence" -- Understanding Translocally Organized School Work: Using an Institutional "Loophole" -- Conclusions: Social Organization of Exclusion -- Notes -- References -- Appendix -- Child marriage and sexual violence in the United States -- Introduction -- The Adult/Child Binary and Age of Consent Laws -- Queering the Adult/Child Binary -- Age, Consent, and Sexual Violence -- Conclusions -- Notes -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Index.

This volume maps the ways that children and young people are considered victims or perpetrators by their societies and consequently the ways that their societies react. The chapters analyse a variety of phenomena in different countries of the Global North and South.

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