CfP: „Zucht und Ordnung.“ Discipline and rules. Violence against and abuse of children in historical perspectives (antiquity to the 21st century) / Gewalt gegen Kinder in historischer Perspektive (Antike-21. Jhd.) (Event: Tutzing, 11/2015); DL: 20.07.2015

Stefan Grüner, Friedrich-Alexander-Univ. Erlangen-Nürnberg und Markus Raasch, Johannes Gutenberg-Univ. Mainz

Ort: Akademie für Politische Bildung, Tutzing
Datum: 13.-15.11.2015
Bewerbungsschluss: 20.07.2015

Seen from a historical perspective it is a relatively recent – and fragile – achievement of modern societies that violence against and abuse of children meets with wide-spread social disapproval and legal consequences. Despite an increase in knowledge about the extent of and reasons for abuse of children the estimated number of undetected cases is alarming even today.

The entire topic of „violence against children“, which includes the phenomena of child neglect, child labour, domestic violence, sexual abuse and infanticide, has led to an abundance of publications under legal, medical and psychological, sociological and pedagogical aspects. Read more, German version, and source … (Web)