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Culture, children's rights and child protection
Author(s) -
Welbourne Penelope
Publication year - 2002
Publication title -
child abuse review
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.569
H-Index - 41
eISSN - 1099-0852
pISSN - 0952-9136
DOI - 10.1002/car.772
Subject(s) - child protection , ethnic group , context (archaeology) , work (physics) , child abuse , sociology , key (lock) , criminology , psychology , political science , gender studies , law , human factors and ergonomics , poison control , medicine , history , engineering , environmental health , computer security , mechanical engineering , archaeology , computer science
This paper explores the ideas of culture and ethnicity in the context of child abuse in the United Kingdom as they are discussed in the literature relating to child protection. The culturally determined nature of some of the key concepts and terms used in child protection work is also discussed. Copyright © 2002 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.