An Examination of the Role that Child Protection Professionals Play in an Identified Range of High Profile Cases in Britain

• 발행기관: 한국외국어대학교 영미연구소
• 저자명: Kwan Choi
• 간행물 정보: 『영미연구』제25집, 345~381쪽, 전체 37쪽
• 주제분류: 어문학 > 영어와문학
• 파일형태: PDF
• 발행일자: 2011.12.31

영문 초록

Child abuse is a dominant social issue guaranteed to capture the headlines whenever it occurs. A disturbing factor of this has been the attendant public and media attacks on professionals, particularly individual social workers and the social work profession. The attacks are sometimes vociferous and abusive and with that in mind it felt necessary that as a trainee of the social work profession, the reasons behind this should be examined. There is an apparent atmosphere of blame and criticism surrounding public inquires set up to investigate the deaths of children at the hands of their parents or carers. Latterly there has also been a plethora of cases involving false allegations of abuse, some of which have led to public trials and miscarriages of justice. Subsequently the last few decades has seen the British public bombarded with page after page of child protection disasters and this paper tries to make sense of the events which culminated in a selection of these notorious child deaths and tries to understand more about the behaviour of the families and professionals involved. There are two clear categories of individual child fatalities covered in this paper; tragedies for the children caused by deliberate abuse by carers and compounded by mistakes made by professionals and miscarriages of justice against parents who had suffered the tragic loss of a child, which was then compounded by professional accusations which arose from professional mistakes. Therefore the focus of this paper is of child fatalities, recognising their importance in shaping child protection polices and procedures, exploring the long and painful history of child protection and scrutinising the continuing dilemmas and problems it presents.

목차

Ⅰ. Introduction

Ⅱ. Literature Review: Historical Perspective

Ⅲ. Child Abuse Tragedies

Ⅳ. Miscarriages of Criminal Justice

Ⅴ. Discussion

Ⅵ. Conclusion

WORKS CITED

Abstract

키워드

아동학대 죽음 보호 형사사법사산 영국 Child Abuse Death Protection Miscarriages of Criminal Justice Britain