Child Safety: Problem and Prevention from Preschool to Adolescence

Ed Bill Gillham, James A Thomson Routledge, £13.99, pp 213 ISBN 0415 12477 8

The term child safety readily conjures up images of children abducted, injured at home and on the roads, and, possibly, children who are sexually abused. Children are also vulnerable to, and suffer from, other forms of insult and injury including physical abuse and bullying. All these are assaults or events clearly directed at or obviously affecting the child, mainly physically.

Child Safety sets out to examine issues of prevention, …