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Suggested further reading

  • Douglas Besharov.Recognizing Child Abuse: A Guide For the Concerned. New York: Free Press, 1990.

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  • Douglas Besharov, ed.Protecting Children From Abuse and Neglect: Policy and Practice. Springfield, Ill.: Charles C Thomas, 1988.

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  • Saad Naji.Child Maltreatment in the United States: A Challenge to Social Institutions. New York: Columbia University Press, 1977.

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  • Barbara Nelson.Making an Issue of Child Abuse: Political Agenda Setting for Social Problems. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1984.

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  1. the American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research, USA

    Douglas J. Besharov (resident scholar, visiting professor)

  2. the University of Maryland School of Public Affairs, USA

    Douglas J. Besharov (resident scholar, visiting professor)

  3. the American Enterprise Institute, USA

    Lisa A. Laumann (research assistant, currently pursuing a doctoral degree in clinical psychology)

  4. the University of Virginia, USA

    Lisa A. Laumann (research assistant, currently pursuing a doctoral degree in clinical psychology)

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  1. Douglas J. Besharov
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He was the first director of the U.S. National Center in Child Abuse and Neglect. His most recent book is Recognizing Child Abuse: A Guide for the Concerned,from which some of this chapter is derived.

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Besharov, D.J., Laumann, L.A. Child abuse reporting. Society 33, 40–46 (1996). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02700306

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