VICTIM, PERPETRATOR,
OR WHAT ELSE?
SOCIOLOGICAL STUDIES OF
CHILDREN AND YOUTH
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SOCIOLOGICAL STUDIES OF CHILDREN AND YOUTH
VOLUME 25
VICTIM, PERPETRATOR,
OR WHAT ELSE?
GENERATIONAL AND
GENDER PERSPECTIVES ON
CHILDREN, YOUTH, AND
VIOLENCE
EDITED BY
DORIS BHLER-NIEDERBERGER
University of Wuppertal, Germany
LARS ALBERTH
Leibniz University Hannover, Germany
SERIES EDITOR
LORETTA E. BASS
The University of Oklahoma, USA
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CONTENTS
Doris Bhler-Niederberger and Lars Alberth
PART I
PERCEPTIONS AND DEFINITIONS
Lars Alberth
Emily M. Douglas and Kerry A. Lee
Andreas Jud and Peter Voll
Jordan Fairbairn, Danielle Sutton, Myrna Dawson and Peter Jaffe
PART II
INSTITUTIONAL REACTIONS
Robert van Krieken
Veronika Odinokova, Maia Rusakova and Vladlena Avdeeva
PART III
CONDITIONS OF CHANGE GLOBAL, NATIONAL, AND LOCAL
Nicola Jones, Yitagesu Gebeyehu and Joan Hamory-Hicks
Elvira Graner
Elena Kim
Jamie OQuinn
ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORS
Lars Alberth is Professor of Theories and Methods of Childhood Studies at Leuphana University Lneburg, Germany. He is a Postdoc in the Sociology Department at Leibniz University Hannover, Germany. His research interests comprise professional responses to child maltreatment, the fabrication of culture, and interactionist theories of work and organization.
Vladlena Avdeeva is Junior Research Fellow at the Sociological Institute, Federal Center of Theoretical and Applied Sociology, Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg, Russian Federation. Research interests: institutional care for children, child protection systems.
Doris Bhler-Niederberger is Professor of Sociology at the University of Wuppertal, Germany. In her research she focuses on institutions and professions dealing with childhood and on age as a dimension of social structure and social order in different societies.
Myrna Dawson is Professor in Public Policy in Criminal Justice, and Director of the Centre for the Study of Social and Legal Responses to Violence, University of Guelph, Director of the Canadian Femicide Observatory for Justice and Accountability, and Co-Director of the Canadian Domestic Homicide Prevention Initiative with Vulnerable Populations.
Emily M. Douglas is Professor and Department Head of Social Science and Policy Studies at Worcester Polytechnic Institute in Massachusetts, USA.
Jordan Fairbairn is an Assistant Professor of Sociology and Criminology at Kings University College at Western University in London, Ontario. Jordan is a co-investigator with the Canadian Domestic Homicide Prevention Initiative with Vulnerable Populations and an expert panel member of the Canadian Femicide Observatory for Justice and Accountability.
Yitagesu Gebeyehu specialises in Gender based violence and has served as a Lecturer and Research Team Leader in CTE, Aysaita since 2012. He is affiliating GAGE as a qualitative researcher since 2018. He is co-author of Exploring the Role of Gendered Social Norms in Shaping Adolescents Experience in Afar.
Elvira Graner is habilitated (Privatdozentin) at the South Asia Institute of Heidelberg University. Assignments in South Asia include heading the Heidelberg Centre South Asia in New Delhi, a one-year consultancy at UNFPA (New Delhi) and being the Deputy Director of the International Centre of Advanced Studies: Metamorphoses of the Political (ICAS:MP).
Joan Hamory-Hicks is an Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of Oklahoma. Her research primarily focuses on transitions to adulthood among youth in low income countries, and has been published in outlets such as The Quarterly Journal of Economics and The European Journal of Political Economy.
Peter Jaffe is a Psychologist and Professor in the Faculty of Education at Western University and the Academic Director of the Centre for Research and Education on Violence Against Women & Children. He is the Co-Director of the Canadian Domestic Homicide Prevention Initiative with Vulnerable Populations.