Child Abuse and Social Deviance

Child abuse and neglect are phenomena that have been persistently and programmatically tracked in many countries. Yet that seemingly straightforward statement is deceptive, inasmuch as some experienced researchers have advanced the view that perhaps 60% of all deaths actually linked to abuse and neglect are in fact not recorded (Crume, DiGuiseppi, Byers, Sirotnak, Garrett, 2002). What are called "child fatality review teams" in the literature in the United States have concluded that official administrative bureaucracies specifically set up for the purpose of protecting children and bringing into the criminal justice system medical service practitioners and others whose charge includes the protection of children have been woefully inadequate in either reporting or acknowledging the extent to which the deaths of children are correctly attributed to the malfeasance of adults. One meta analysis of child-fatality statistics, based chiefly on an extrapolation from research conducted in the state of Colorado, cites "the inability of any one system of child protection, law enforcement, health, or criminal j

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r, 1946, pp. 220-1). Public administration is plainly not compensating for the absence of life opportunities of children, if statistics about the proper recording of deaths of children in America are any guide. The informal character of social protections for children, then, must be relied upon, and yet the weight of evidence is on the side of the view that child abuse persists as a phenomenon to be diminished in importance as far as the formal structures of society are concerned and not to be addressed by such informal interventions as might be marshaled in defense of the abused parties. Forms of child abuse are as varied as the human imagination, as reported in the professional literature. Indeed, in the background of the specious statistics about the deaths of children are multiple narratives of sexual and physical abuse of children and the psychosocial deviance of adult abusers, who may or may not be part of the abused child's family. Perhaps more disquieting are reports that children who are doubly vulnerable, not only by reason of their youth but also by reason of a physical or mental disability, are more likely to suffer abuse. Deaf children, for example, appear to have been targeted for abuse because their impediment oft
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