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Recent Advances and New Challenges in Child Maltreatment Research, Practice, and Policy: Previewing the Issues
Author(s) -
Bottoms Bette L.,
Quas Jodi A.
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
journal of social issues
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.618
H-Index - 122
eISSN - 1540-4560
pISSN - 0022-4537
DOI - 10.1111/j.1540-4560.2006.00481.x
Subject(s) - child abuse , field (mathematics) , work (physics) , psychology , political science , engineering ethics , suicide prevention , poison control , public relations , sociology , criminology , medicine , engineering , environmental health , mechanical engineering , mathematics , pure mathematics
Few issues are of such grave importance to society and to the science and practice of psychology as child maltreatment. Our goal in editing this issue of JSI was to inform scientists across various sub‐fields of psychology about the most current knowledge in the field of child maltreatment, broadly defined. The authors of the articles have gone further, pushing past the edge of current knowledge and setting aggressive agendas for future empirical and policy‐relevant work. We believe that the result will be enriched future research, practice, policy, and law, and in turn, the increased well‐being of children and their families.