The highly anticipated Ending Child Abuse: New Efforts in Prevention, Investigation, and Training presents an exciting vision: to end or significantly reduce child abuse. Respected social scientists and legal scholars discuss empirically sound short- and long- term multidisciplinary strategies that can be implemented in every community. Innovative and well-established concepts and approaches are clearly presented, such as specialized education, rational preventative methods, effective investigation and prosecution strategies, and the analysis of factors that influence law enforcement investigations and child abuse prevention efforts. This collection is impeccably referenced, soundly supported with research, and includes an appendix of other useful sources of information.

Victor I. Vieth, Bette L. Bottoms, Alison Perona

Part 1 INTRODUCTION; Chapter 1 Ending Child Abuse: Introducing a Collection of New Perspectives and Practical Techniques, Victor I. Vieth, Bette L. Bottoms, Alison R. Perona; Part 2 ARTICLES; Chapter 2 Unto the Third Generation: A Call to End Child Abuse in the United States Within 120 Years, Victor I. Vieth; Chapter 3 What We Know-and Don't Know-About Preventing Child Maltreatment, Sharon G. Portwood; Chapter 4 Research-Based Guidelines for Child Forensic Interviews, Alison R. Perona, Bette L. Bottoms, Erin Sorenson; Chapter 5 Children First: National Model for the Vertical Prosecution of Cases Involving Murdered and Physically Abused Children, David M. Williams; Chapter 6 The Master of Arts in Child Advocacy: A Contribution to an Emerging Discipline, Robert D. McCormick; Part 3 CONCLUSION; Chapter 7 Ending Child Abuse, David L. Chadwick;