Child Maltreatment, Third Edition, by Cindy Miller-Perrin and Robin Perrin, is a thoroughly updated new edition of the first textbook for undergraduate students and beginning graduate students in this field. The text is designed to provide a comprehensive introduction to child maltreatment by disseminating current knowledge about the various types of violence against children. By helping students understand more fully the etiology, prevalence, treatment, policy issues, and prevention of child maltreatment, the authors hope to further our understanding of how to treat child maltreatment victims and how to prevent future child maltreatment.
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Weight: 830g
Dimensions: 187 x 231mm
Publication Date: 10 Jul 2012
Publisher: SAGE Publications Inc
Publication City/Country: United States
Language: English
ISBN13: 9781452205793
About Cindy L. Miller-PerrinRobin D. Perrin
Robin D. Perrin is currently Professor of Sociology at Pepperdine University in Malibu California. His research interests and publications are in the areas of interpersonal violence deviance theory the social construction of social problems and the sociology of religion. He is the coauthor of three books: Social Deviance: Being Behaving and Branding (with D. Ward & T. Carter 1991) Child Maltreatment: An Introduction (with C. Miller-Perrin Sage 1999; 2007) and Family Violence Across the Lifespan (with O. Barnett & C. Miller-Perrin Sage 1997 2005; 2011). He is the author or coauthor of numerous articles on a variety of topics related to religion deviance and interpersonal violence. He is the recipient of the 2004 Howard A. White Award for Teaching Excellence. He received his doctorate in sociology from Washington State University in 1989. Following his doctoral studies he was Assistant Professor of Sociology at Seattle Pacific University in Seattle Washington.