Child abuse
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Broader terms:Related term:Narrower terms:- Child abuse -- Investigation
- Child abuse -- Ireland
- Child abuse -- Juvenile fiction
- Child abuse -- Law and legislation
- Child abuse -- Prevention
- Child abuse -- Religious aspects
- Child abuse -- Research
- Child abuse -- Russia (Federation)
- Child abuse -- Uganda
- Child abuse -- United States
- Abused children -- Services for
- Child abuse in literature
- Child pornography
- Child sexual abuse
- Girls -- Crimes against
- Abuse of children
- Child maltreatment
- Child neglect
- Children -- Abuse of
- Cruelty to children
- Maltreatment of children
- Neglect of children
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I Hope My Daddy Dies, Mister (Philadelphia: Dorrance and Co., c1975), by Kenneth J. Herrmann (PDF with commentary at Brockport)- The Importance of Fathers in the Healthy Development of Children (Washington: Children's Bureau, Office on Child Abuse and Neglect, 2006), by Jeffrey Rosenberg and William Bradford Wilcox (PDF at fdlp.gov)
- The Emotional Life of Nations, by Lloyd DeMause (HTML at psychohistory.com)
- The Role of First Responders in Child Maltreatment Cases: Disaster and Nondisaster Situations (Washington: Children's Bureau, Office on Child Abuse and Neglect, 2010), by Richard Cage and Marsha K. Salus (PDF at govinfo.gov)
- Community Partnerships: Improving the Response to Child Maltreatment (2010), by United States Office on Child Abuse and Neglect (PDF at govinfo.gov)
- Child Neglect: A Guide for Prevention, Assessment and Intervention (Washington: Children's Bureau, Office on Child Abuse and Neglect, 2006), by Diane DePanfilis (PDF at govinfo.gov)
- Child Sexual Exploitation: Improving Investigations and Protecting Victims (1995), by Education Development Center (text at ncjrs.gov)
- Report I of the 40th Statewide Investigating Grand Jury (redacted copy of the Pennsylvania Diocese Victims Report, with responses; ca. 2018), by Pennsylvania Statewide Grand Jury (PDF with commentary at attorneygeneral.gov)
- Grand Jury Report on the Sexual Abuse of Minors by Clergy (2005; with commentary and the Archdiocese of Philadelphia Response), by Philadelphia District Attorney's Office (PDF files with commentary at bishop-acountability.org)
- Child Molesters: A Behavioral Analysis (fifth edition, 2010), by Kenneth V. Lanning (PDF at missingkids.org)
- Child Molesters: A Behavioral Analysis (third edition, 1992), by Kenneth V. Lanning (PDF at ccoso.org)
- Commission to Inquire into Child Abuse Report (5 volumes; 2009), by Ireland Commission to Inquire into Child Abuse (HTML in Ireland)
- Jessica's First Prayer (with color illustrations; London: Religious Tract Society. n.d.), by Hesba Stretton (PDF files with commentary at Roehampton)
- The Fairchilds: or, "Do What You Can" (Philadelphia: American Sunday-School Union, c1871), by Lucy Ellen Guernsey (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
- Working with the Courts in Child Protection (Washington: Children's Bureau, Office on Child Abuse and Neglect, 2006), by William G. Jones (PDF at govinfo.gov)
- Refining Child Pornography Law: Crime, Language, and Social Consequences (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2016), ed. by Carissa Byrne Hessick
- The Use of Computers to Transmit Material Inciting Crime: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Security and Terrorism of the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, Ninety-Ninth Congress, First Session, on the Use of Computers to Transmit Material That Incites Crime and Constitutes Interstate Transmission of Implicit Obscene Matter, June 11, 1985 (Washington: GPO, 1985), by United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary (page images at HathiTrust)
- Computer Pornograph and Child Exploitation Prevention Act: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Juvenile Justice of the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, Ninety-Ninth Congress, First Session, on S. 1305 (Washington: GPO, 1986), by United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Use of Computers to Transmit Material Inciting Crime: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Security and Terrorism of the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, Ninety-Ninth Congress, First Session, on the Use of Computers to Transmit Material That Incites Crime and Constitutes Interstate Transmission of Implicit Obscene Matter, June 11, 1985 (Washington: GPO, 1985), by United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary (page images at HathiTrust)
- Sexual Online Grooming of Children: Challenges for Science and Practice (Baden-Baden: Nomos, c2025), ed. by Laura F. Kuhle and Daniela Stelzmann (PDF with commentary in Germany)
- The Role of Professional Child Care Providers in Preventing and Responding to Child Abuse and Neglect (Washington: Children's Bureau, Office on Child Abuse and Neglect, 2008), by Kathy Karageorge and Rosemary Kendall (PDF at mo.gov)
- The Sexual Abuse of Children: Recognition and Redress (Clayton, Victoria: Monash University Publishing, c2016), ed. by Yorick Smaal, Andy Kaladelfos, and Mark Finnane (PDF and Epub with commentary at monash.edu)
- The Secret of the Silver Horse (PDF in Canada)
- Sexual Online Grooming of Children: Challenges for Science and Practice (Baden-Baden: Nomos, c2025), ed. by Laura F. Kuhle and Daniela Stelzmann (PDF with commentary in Germany)
- Community Partnerships: Improving the Response to Child Maltreatment (2010), by United States Office on Child Abuse and Neglect (PDF at govinfo.gov)
- Child Neglect: A Guide for Prevention, Assessment and Intervention (Washington: Children's Bureau, Office on Child Abuse and Neglect, 2006), by Diane DePanfilis (PDF at govinfo.gov)
- A Coordinated Response to Child Abuse and Neglect: The Foundation for Practice (Washington: Children's Bureau, Office on Child Abuse and Neglect, 2003), by Jill Goldman and Marsha K. Salus
- The Role of Educators in Preventing and Responding to Child Abuse and Neglect (Washington: Children's Bureau, Office on Child Abuse and Neglect, 2003), by Cynthia Crosson-Tower (PDF at fdlp.gov)
- Understanding Child Abuse and Neglect (1993), by National Research Council Panel on Research on Child Abuse and Neglect (page images with commentary at NAP)
- Protecting Children in Families Affected by Substance Use Disorders (Washington: Children's Bureau, Office on Child Abuse and Neglect, 2009), by ICF International (Firm) (PDF at govinfo.gov)
- Child Protective Services: A Guide for Caseworkers (Washington: Children's Bureau, Office on Child Abuse and Neglect, 2003), by Diane DePanfilis and Marsha K. Salus (page images at HathiTrust)
- Investigator's Guide to Allegations of "Ritual" Child Abuse (1992), by Kenneth V. Lanning (PDF with commentary at ncjrs.goc)
- Children in Jeopardy: A Study of Abused Minors and Their Families (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1967), by Elizabeth Elmer, contrib. by Bertram R. Girdany, Thomas McHenry, and John B. Reinhart (page images at Pitt)
- Abandoned to the State: Cruelty and Neglect in Russian Orphanages, by Kathleen Hunt (HTML at hrw.org)
- Uganda, "Breaking God's Commands": The Destruction of Childhood by the Lord's Resistance Army (1997), by Amnesty International (PDF at amnesty.org)
- Child Protection in Families Experiencing Domestic Violence (second edition; Washington: Children's Bureau, Office on Child Abuse and Neglect, 2018), by Kristen Selleck, Jeannie Newman, and Debra Gilmore (PDF at fdlp.gov)
- Child Protection in Families Experiencing Domestic Violence (Washington: Children's Bureau, Office on Child Abuse and Neglect, 2003), by H. Lien Bragg (PDF at govinfo.gov)
- Children in Jeopardy: A Study of Abused Minors and Their Families (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1967), by Elizabeth Elmer, contrib. by Bertram R. Girdany, Thomas McHenry, and John B. Reinhart (page images at Pitt)
- Refining Child Pornography Law: Crime, Language, and Social Consequences (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2016), ed. by Carissa Byrne Hessick
- Child Pornography and Sex Rings (reprinted from the FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin; 1984), by Kenneth V. Lanning and Ann Wolbert Burgess (page images at HathiTrust)
- Investigator's Guide to Allegations of "Ritual" Child Abuse (1992), by Kenneth V. Lanning (PDF with commentary at ncjrs.goc)
- The National Report on Domestic Minor Sex Trafficking: America's Prostituted Children (2009), by Shared Hope International (PDF with commentary at sharedhope.org)
- The Primer: Helping Victims of Domestic Violence and Child Abuse in Polygamous Communities (2006), by Utah Attorney General's Office and Arizona Attorney General's Office (PDF at utah.gov)
- Child Sexual Exploitation: Improving Investigations and Protecting Victims (1995), by Education Development Center (text at ncjrs.gov)
- The Primer: Helping Victims of Domestic Violence and Child Abuse in Polygamous Communities (2006), by Utah Attorney General's Office and Arizona Attorney General's Office (PDF at utah.gov)
- Bleak Houses: Marital Violence in Victorian Fiction (Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, c2005), by Lisa A. Surridge (PDF at ohioswallow.com)
- Confronting Child Sexual Abuse: Knowledge to Action (Amherst, MA: Lever Press, c2020), by Anne Nurse (multiple formats with commentary at Lever Press)
- Sexual Online Grooming of Children: Challenges for Science and Practice (Baden-Baden: Nomos, c2025), ed. by Laura F. Kuhle and Daniela Stelzmann (PDF with commentary in Germany)
- Report I of the 40th Statewide Investigating Grand Jury (redacted copy of the Pennsylvania Diocese Victims Report, with responses; ca. 2018), by Pennsylvania Statewide Grand Jury (PDF with commentary at attorneygeneral.gov)
- Tempest in the Temple: Jewish Communities and Child Sex Scandals (Waltham, MA: Brandeis University Press, c2009), ed. by Amy Neustein (page images and PDF at Brandeis)
- Betrayal of Trust: Clergy Abuse of Children (c1988), by Annie Laurie Gaylor (HTML with commentary at ffrf.org)
- The Causes and Context of Sexual Abuse of Minors by Catholic Priests in the United States, 1950-2010: A Report Presented to the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops by the John Jay College Research Team (Washington: US Conference of Catholic Bishops, 2011), by Karen J. Terry, Margaret Leland Smith, Katarina Schuth, James R. Kelly, Brenda Vollman, and Christina Massey (PDF at usccb.org)
- The Nature and Scope of Sexual Abuse of Minors by Catholic Priests and Deacons in the United States, 1950-2002: A Research Study Conducted by the John Jay College of Criminal Justice, the City University of New York (Washington: United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, 2004), by John Jay College of Criminal Justice (PDF at usccb.org)
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