Child Abuse : Towards a knowledge base /
Brian Corby.
- 2nd ed.
- Buckingham : Open University Press, 2000.
- 224p.
Previous ed.: 1993.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
This text provides an introduction to a range of knowledge which should be of importance to students and practitioners in the child protection field. It stresses the need to understand child abuse in a historical, social and political context.