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Children are the most criminally victimized segment of the population, and a substantial number face multiple, serious "poly-victimizations" during a single year. And despite the fact that the priority emphasis in academic research and government policy has traditionally gone to studying juvenile delinquents, children actually appear before authorities more frequently as victims than as offenders. But at the same time, the media and many advocates have failed to note the good news: rates of sexual abuse, child homicide, and many other forms of victimization declined dramatically after the mid-1990s, and some terribly feared forms of child victimization, like stereotypical stranger abduction, are remarkably uncommon. The considerable ignorance about the realities of child victimization can be chalked up to a field that is fragmented, understudied, and subjected to political demagoguery.In this persuasive book, David Finkelhor presents a comprehensive new vision to encompass the prevention, treatment, and study of juvenile victims, unifying conventional subdivisions like child molestation, child abuse, bullying, and exposure to community violence. Developmental victimology, his term for this integrated perspective, looks at child victimization across childhood's span and yields fascinating insights about how to categorize juvenile victimizations, how to think about risk and impact, and how victimization patterns change over the course of development. The book also provides a valuable new model of society's response to child victimization - what Finkelhor calls the Juvenile Victim Justice System - and a fresh way of thinking about barriers that victims and their families encounter when seeking help. These models will be very useful to anyone seeking to improve the way we try to help child victims. Crimes against children still happen far too often, but by proposing a new framework for thinking about the issue, Childhood Victimization opens a promising door to reducing its frequency and improving the response. Professionals, policymakers, and child advocates will find this paradigm-shifting book to be a valuable addition to their shelves.

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• List of Contributors(p. xv)
• 1 Child Victims: An Introduction(p. 3)
• 2 Developmental Victimology(p. 22)
• 3 Children at Risk(p. 47)
• 4 Developmental Impact(p. 65)
• 5 Just Kids' Stuff? Peer and Sibling Violence(p. 92)
• 6 Getting Help: What Are the Barriers?(p. 102)
• 7 Good News: Child Victimization Has Been Declining. Why?(p. 122)
• 8 The Juvenile Victim Justice System: A Concept for Helping Victims(p. 148)
• 9 Proposals(p. 167)
• Notes(p. 185)
• References(p. 187)

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CHOICE Review

This reviewer began working with victims of sexual assault in the late 1970s, and one of the first books she read regarding the sexual abuse of children was Sexually Victimized Children, written by Finkelhor (Univ. of New Hampshire) in 1979. Over the next decade, Finkelhor's compelling and eye-opening books on family violence, sexual violence against wives, and child sexual abuse were critical for this professional working in the area of violence. Therefore, expectations were high for Finkelhor's newest book. Once more, he proves to be on the cutting edge in terms of his perspectives and recommendations. His discussions on "developmental victimology" and "poly-victims" are helpful ways to conceptualize child victims of sexual abuse. As a practitioner turned academic, this reviewer was glad to see the "conceptual framework for analyzing barriers," which she will now reference when teaching students about working in the victim-serving system. This book is an interesting combination of the empirical literature and practical tools not previously seen. For students and professionals in the field of child sexual abuse. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and above. D. A. Mathews Salisbury University

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David Finkelhor is a Professor of Sociology and the Director of the Crimes Against Children Research Center at the University of New Hampshire.