Skip to main content
SpringerLink
Log in
Palgrave Macmillan

Children and Violence

The World of the Defenceless

  • Book
  • © 2008

Overview

Authors:
  1. Einar A. Helander
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed   Google Scholar

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this book

Log in via an institution
eBook USD 39.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Available as PDF
  • Read on any device
  • Instant download
  • Own it forever
Softcover Book USD 54.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Compact, lightweight edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info
Hardcover Book USD 54.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Durable hardcover edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info

Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout

Other ways to access

Licence this eBook for your library

Institutional subscriptions

Table of contents (15 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxiv
    Download chapter PDF

  2. Introduction

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
      Download chapter PDF

    2. You Cut a Rose and Release a Tornado

      • Einar A. Helander
      Pages 3-19

    3. Definitions, Materials and Methods

      • Einar A. Helander
      Pages 20-35

    4. Mirrors of the Past

      • Einar A. Helander
      Pages 36-42

  3. Micro-system Violence towards Biological and Social Orphans

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 43-43
      Download chapter PDF

    2. Children in Residential Institutions

      • Einar A. Helander
      Pages 45-61

    3. Children On Their Own

      • Einar A. Helander
      Pages 62-77

    4. Parent Deprivation: Consequences and Alternatives

      • Einar A. Helander
      Pages 78-83

  4. Damaging Effects of the Meso-system: Childhood Violence in Birth Families and its Consequences

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 85-85
      Download chapter PDF

    2. Prevalence of Childhood Violence

      • Einar A. Helander
      Pages 87-132

    3. Micro-system Consequences and Upstream Effects of Childhood Violence

      • Einar A. Helander
      Pages 133-158

  6. The Global System: Perspectives of Human Rights, Evolution, Development and Progress

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 211-211
      Download chapter PDF

    2. Human Rights and Human Wrongs

      • Einar A. Helander
      Pages 213-222

    3. Poverty, Inequality and Solidarity

      • Einar A. Helander
      Pages 223-233

    4. The Sacrifice of the Poor

      • Einar A. Helander
      Pages 234-254

  7. Primary Child Violence Prevention by Exo-systems

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 255-255
      Download chapter PDF
Back to top

Keywords

About this book

This book provides a disturbing account of the reality of child abuse. Based on data from 152 countries, Einar Helander considers the physical, societal, economic and judicial consequences of child abuse, proposing a universal, community-based prevention programme.

About the author

EINAR HELANDER  is an advisor to the Portuguese National Commission for the Protection of Children and Youth, as well as to the World Health Organization, having worked previously as the WHO's Chief Medical Officer for the Disability Prevention and Rehabilitation Programme. He has taught at universities for almost 60 years, and has founded successful initiatives creating community-based health and social programmes.  

Bibliographic Information

Publish with us

Policies and ethics

Back to top

Search

Navigation