Rethinking Child and Adolescent Multiple Victimization and Violence Prevention
A special issue of Social Sciences (ISSN 2076-0760). This special issue belongs to the section "Crime and Justice".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (29 February 2024) | Viewed by 4532
Special Issue Editors
2. Research Center on Child Studies (CIEC), University of Minho (UM), 4710-057 Braga, Portugal
Interests: victimization; victimology; interparental violence; intimate partner violence; domestic violence; child abuse and neglect; child rights
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Interests: violence and victimization; social sciences; global health; environment and human health; environmental science; sustainability; information and communication technologies (ICTs); statistics and probability
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The experience of violence by children and adolescents, whether in the family domain or in broader social contexts, such as school or community, has been amply demonstrated by international prevalence studies (Finkelhor et al., 2015). Such situations of child and juvenile victimization considered as Adverse Childhood Experience (ACE) can affect the safety, stability, and attachment of children and adolescents (Lopes et al., 2021; National Center for Injury Prevention and Control, 2019) and negatively affect their physical, emotional, cognitive, and behavioural well-being in all stages of its development (Higgins & McCabe, 2000), especially in the first years of life (UNICEF, 2017). Such adjustment problems are even more devastating when children and adolescents are subject to multiple victimization or polyvictimization (Ford & Delker, 2018; Sani et al., 2021a), due to possible exposure to several risk factors, with a strong and cumulative impact (Elliott et al, 2019; Felitti et al., 1998). Studies that contribute to the improvement of the etiology, prevalence, and impacts of multiple victimization in children and adolescents are of particular importance for the development of preventive strategies by professionals in the various support services (Sani et al., 2020). The protection of children and adolescents and the promotion of their rights largely stem from the evidence of research and intervention focused on the child, their needs and strengths, in accordance with an ecological and resilience approach. Accordingly, the articles in this Special Issue should focus on children and/or adolescents experiencing violence; discuss multiple victimization in offline and/or online contexts (Sani et al., 2021b); and contribute to the understanding of the causes of the violence phenomenon, its impact on child and adolescent development, as well as on focusing the promotion of child rights and protection and the prevention of violence. Articles must be based on rigorous studies that may include literature reviews, meta-analyses, quantitative and/or qualitative research, prevalence studies, comparative studies, or clinical or interventional evidence in scientific areas of children and adolescents' studies.
Prof. Dr. Ana Isabel Sani
Prof. Dr. Maria Alzira Pimenta Dinis
Guest Editors
References
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Keywords
- Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE)
- child abuse and neglected
- child rights
- cybercrime
- direct or vicarious violence
- domestic violence
- exposure to interparental violence
- multiple victimization
- online victimization
- polyvictimization
- prevention
- protection
- resilience
- violence against child or adolescent
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