• E4J University Module Series: Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice

• Module 12: Violence against Children

• Introduction and learning outcomes

• Key issues

  • Topic 1. The many forms of violence against children
  • Topic 2. The impact of violence on children
  • Topic 3. States obligations to prevent VAC and protect child victims
  • Topic 4. Improving the prevention of violence against children
  • Topic 5. Improving the criminal justice response to VAC
  • Topic 6. Addressing violence against children within the justice system
  • References

• Exercises

• Case studies

• Possible class structure

• Core reading

• Advanced reading

• Student assessment

• Additional teaching tools

• Guidelines to develop a stand-alone course

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• First published in June 2019
  

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  This module is a resource for lecturers  

 

Case studies

 

Several case studies are provided to illustrate the different approaches to crime prevention. These can be used as handouts or included in the relevant sections of the lecture. Case studies are necessarily geographically specific. Regionally or locally relevant case studies can be constructed by viewing materials available from regional and local crime prevention entities.

 

Case Study One

Child Rights Information Network (CRIN) (n.d). Australia: Baby Ferouz and the Children Kept Behind Bars .  This case study explores the hardship and violence, experienced by children seeking asylum.

 

Case Study Two

Child Rights Information Network (CRIN) (n.d). Europe: Progress on Corporal Punishment of Children After Collective Complaints.  This case study highlights the role that NGOs can play in promoting public debate and progressive law reform, to ban corporal punishment of children.

 

Case Study Three

Child Rights Information Network (CRIN) (n.d). India: A toddler's 18-month Wait for Justice.   This case study illustrates the barriers that child victims of violence face when seeking justice, highlighting that justice processes themselves can enact violence against children, these processes do not uphold children's rights and international standards and norms regarding the treatment of child victims.

 

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