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Corby (applied social studies, U. of Liverpool, UK) provides an introduction to child protection for students and caregivers, stressing the need to understand child abuse in a historical, social, and political context in order to understand causes and consequences. He overviews child abuse in history from the Middle Ages to the present and reviews contemporary research in Britain, the US, and Europe on defining child abuse, the extent of child abuse, and statistics on abusers. A final chapter discusses emerging issues such as prevention and development of therapeutic services. Distributed by Taylor & Francis. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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