Over 30 years ago, the United Nations developed the Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC), heralding the importance of protecting children from a range of human rights violations. Among these are the right to be free from abuse and neglect at the hands of parents or other caregivers, and the responsibility of states to devise a protective response. How nations conceptualize harm and even how they define childhood varies markedly across the globe. This
Handbook describes and analyzes the ways in which 50 countries from every continent, except Antarctica, have devised measures for child protection emphasized in the UNCRC. The Handbook discusses the
legislative responses, public administrative systems, and the social service networks that governments have put in place to secure the protection of children against maltreatment and exploitation. Synthesizing data from across the world, the authors suggest a global typology of child protection systems for understanding the diversity of service responses. The typology consists of five ideal types that have as their emphasis protection against an array of risks to childhood and that represent
the focal point for government intervention in the lives of families. They include child exploitation protective systems, child deprivation protective systems, child maltreatment protective systems,
child well-being protective systems, and child rights protective systems. The Handbook is a valuable resource for researchers, students, and policymakers attempting to craft thoughtful state responses to children's needs
Over 30 years ago, the United Nations developed the Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC), heralding the importance of protecting children from a range of human rights violations. Among these are the right to be free from abuse and neglect at the hands of parents or other caregivers, and the responsibility of states to devise a protective response. How nations conceptualize harm and even how they define childhood varies markedly across the globe. This
Handbook describes and analyzes the ways in which 50 countries from every continent, except Antarctica, have devised measures for child protection emphasized in the UNCRC. The Handbook discusses the
legislative responses, public administrative systems, and the social service networks that governments have put in place to secure the protection of children against maltreatment and exploitation. Synthesizing data from across the world, the authors suggest a global typology of child protection systems for understanding the diversity of service responses. The typology consists of five ideal types that have as their emphasis protection against an array of risks to childhood and that represent
the focal point for government intervention in the lives of families. They include child exploitation protective systems, child deprivation protective systems, child maltreatment protective systems,
child well-being protective systems, and child rights protective systems. The Handbook is a valuable resource for researchers, students, and policymakers attempting to craft thoughtful state responses to children's needs
Table of Contents
1 Child Protection Systems Across the World
Jill Duerr Berrick, Neil Gilbert and Marit Skivenes
Section I - Institutionalized
2 Child Protection in Australia and New Zealand: An Overview of
Systems
Judith Cashmore and Nicola Taylor
3 The Austrian Child Welfare System: Moving Towards
Professionalization and Participation
Katrin Kriz, Jenny Krutzinna and Peter Pantucek-Eisenbacher
4 Child Protection in Belgium: An Overview of the Systems
Johan Vanderfaeillie, Erik Van Dooren and Jessica Segers
5 Child Welfare in Canada
Nico Trocmé, Melanie Doucet, Barbara Fallon, Jennifer Nutton, and
Tonino Esposito
6 The Child Protection Systems in Denmark and Norway
Anne-Dorthe Hestbæk, Marit Skivenes, Asgeir Falch-Eriksen, Idamarie
Leth Svendsen and Elisabeth Backe-Hansen
7 Child Welfare and Child Protection Services in England
June Thoburn
8 Child Protection in Finland and Sweden
Ingrid Höjer and Tarja Pösö
9 Child Protection and Welfare in France
Flora Bolter
10 Child Protection and Welfare in Germany
Kay Biesel and Heinz Kindler
11 Child Protection and Welfare on the Island of Ireland: Irish
Issues, Global Relevance
Kenneth Burns, John Devaney, Stephanie Holt and Gerry Marshall
12 Child Protection in Israel
Daphna Gross-Manos, Eran Melkman and Aya Almog-Zaken
13 Child Protection in Mediterranean Countries: Italy and
Greece
Teresa Bertotti, Roberta T. Di Rosa, Charis Asimopoulos
14 A New Era for Child Protection in Japan
Shoko Tokunaga, Mitsuru Fukui, Misa Saigo and Saki Nagano
15 The Child Protection System in the Netherlands: Characteristics,
Trends, and Evidence
Erik J. Knorth, Helen Bouma, Hans Grietens and Mónica López
López
16 The Development of the Korean Child Protection System: Cultural
Influences, Unique Challenges, and Policy Strategies
Yiyoon Chung and TJ Lah
17 Child Protection Systems in Spain
Sagrario Segado
18 Child Protection and Children's Services in Switzerland
Stefan Schnurr
19 Child Protection in the United States
Jennifer Lawson and Jill Duerr Berrick
Section II - Emerging
20 The Chilean Child Protection System
Carolina Muñoz-Guzman, Miguel Cillero Bruñol, Mariana
Bernasconi
21 Czech Child Protection after 1989: Between Socialist Legacy and
the European Call for Democratic Legitimacy
Victoria Shmidt
22 Child Protection Systems in Estonia and Latvia
Merle Linno and Judit Strömpl
23 Child Protection in Lithuania
Ilona Tamutiene, Dalija Snieskiene
24 Child Protection in Poland
Violetta Tanas
25 Child Protection in Portugal
Jorge Ferreira
26 Child Protection System in the Slovak Republic
Kvasnáková Lenka, Balogová Beáta
27 Child Protection in South Africa
Julia Sloth-Nielsen
28 Child Protection System in Uruguay
María del Luján González Tornaría and Delfina Miller
Section III - Nascent
29 Building the Child Protection System in Argentina
Carla Villata and Valeria Lobet
30 Child Protection Systems in Brazil
Diene Monique Carlos, Ailton de Souza Aragão, Eliana Mendes de
Souza Teixeira Roque, Lygie Maria Pereira da Silva
31 Child Protection Policy and Service in China
Fang Zhao and Yanfeng Xu
32 Colombian Child Protection System
María Cristina Torrado P. and Ernesto Duran Strauch
33 Ecuador: Child Protection Systems
Verónica Jiménez Borja, Micaela Jiménez Borja, and Teresa Borja
Álvarez
34 Child Protection in Egypt
Hmoud S. Olimat and Amal A. ElGama
35 Child Protection Systems in Ghana
Mavis Dako-Gyeke, Abigail Adubea Mills, and Doris Akyere
Boateng
36 Child Protection System in India: An Overview
Sanjai Bhatt and Subhashree Sanyal
37 The Social Construction and Development of an Integrated Child
Protection System: In Search of Core Templates in a Diversified and
Decentralized Indonesia
Erna Dinata
38 Child Protection in Iran
Marzieh Takaffoli, Meroe Vameghi, Maliheh Arshi, Leila
Ostadhashemi
39 Child Protection in Lebanon
Hoda Rizk
40 Children at Risk in Mexico: Issues, Policies, and
Interventions
Martha Frías Armenta
41 Child Protection System in Nigeria
Chimezie Elekwachi
42 Protecting Children in the Philippines: A System Focused
Overview of Policy and Practice
Steven Roche and Florence Flores-Pasos
43 Reforming Russia's Child Protection System: From Residential to
Family Care
Meri Kulmala, Maija Jäppinen and Zhanna Chernova
44 Child Protection Systems in Uganda
Deogratias Yiga
45 Making Child Protection Systems Work for Children: Lessons from
Zimbabwe
Mildred T. Mushunje
Conclusion
46 Child Protection Systems: A Global Typology
Jill Duerr Berrick, Neil Gilbert and Marit Skivenes
Jill Duerr Berrick serves as the Zellerbach Family Foundation
Professor in the School of Social Welfare at U.C. Berkeley.
Berrick's research focuses on the relationship of the state to
vulnerable families, particularly those touched by the child
welfare system. She has written or co-written 11 books on topics
relating to family poverty, child maltreatment, and child welfare
services and has written extensively for academic journals.
Berrick's
research approach typically relies upon the voices of service
system consumers to identify the impacts of social problems and
social service solutions in family life. Her newest book, The
Impossible Imperative:
Navigating the Competing Principles of Child Protection examines
child welfare professionals and the morally contentious and
intellectually demanding choices they regularly face in their work
with children and families.
Neil Gilbert is Chernin Professor of Social Welfare at U.C.
Berkeley. He has served as a Senior Research Fellow at the United
Nations Research Institute for Social Development and a Visiting
Scholar at the International Social Security Association in Geneva.
Gilbert was awarded two Senior Fulbright Research Fellowships to
study European Social Policy at the London School of Economics, the
National Institute of Social Work and the University of Stockholm.
He has served as a
visiting Professor at McGill University and Hamburg University.
His publications include thirty-two books and over 130 articles
that have appeared in The Wall Street Journal, The Public Interest,
Society, Commentary, and leading academic journals. Several of his
books were translated into Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and Italian
and widely reviewed in venues such as the New York Times, the New
York Review of Books, The New Republic, the Wall Street Journal,
and the Atlantic. Gilbert is chairman of the Board
of Seneca Family of Agencies and a recipient of the University of
Pittsburgh Bicentennial Medallion of Distinction.
Marit Skivenes is a professor in political science at the
University of Bergen, Norway, and the director of Centre for
Research on Discretion and Paternalism.
Prof. Skivenes has published numerous research articles in the
field of child protection and children´s rights, with a focus is on
the legitimacy of state interventions and the quality of decisions
made in the best interest of the child. She has been the Principal
Investigator for large international research projects, and been
co-editor on several cross-country books on child protection.
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