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Ending Child AbuseEnding Child Abuse
New Efforts in Prevention, Investigation, and Training

Learn the strategies to achieve the goal of ending child abuse!

Edited by Victor I. Vieth, JD, National Child Protection Training Center, Winona State University, Winona, Minnesota; Bette L. Bottoms, PhD, Professor, Department of Psychology, University of Illinois at Chicago; Alison R. Perona, JD, Inspector General, Chicago Transit Authority, Chicago, Illinois

The highly anticipated Ending Child Abuse: New Efforts in Prevention, Investigation, and Training presents an exciting vision: to end or significantly reduce child abuse. Respected social scientists and legal scholars discuss empirically sound short- and long-term multidisciplinary strategies that can be implemented in our society. Innovative and well-established concepts and approaches are clearly presented, such as specialized education, rational preventative methods, effective investigation and prosecution strategies, and the analysis of factors that influence law enforcement investigations and child abuse prevention efforts.

Copies can be ordered from The Hawthorne Press, Inc. Web site

Cost: $39.95 Hardcover; $24.95 Softcover
Publisher: The Hawthorne Press, Inc.

Child Sexual Exploitation PublicationMedical, Legal, & Social Science Aspects of Child Sexual Exploitation

A Comprehensive Review of Pornography, Prostitution, and Internet Crimes with Supplementary CD-ROM

This exceptional publication discusses ways to build multidisciplinary efforts to demolish businesses based on child sexual exploitation. This first-of-a-kind publication promises to be an invaluable resource for those around the world who have devoted their lives to rescuing children and holding child exploiters accountable for their actions.

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Cost: $295.90
Publisher: G.W. Medical Publishing, Inc.

Copies can be ordered from G.W. Medical Publishing, Inc.: http://www.gwmedical.com/CSE1.html


Investigation and Prosecution of Child Abuse, 3rd Edition, authored by the American Prosecutors Research Institute

To assist investigators and prosecutors, APRI's National Center for Prosecution of Child Abuse presents the Investigation and Prosecution of Child Abuse, 3rd Edition. Readers of this manual will receive practical, common sense assistance in handling child abuse cases from the initial report to the closing argument at trial. Appendices on the enclosed CD-ROM include hundreds of sample motions and other legal documents that can be adapted to the jurisdiction of individual readers.

Hardcover: 0761930906, List Price: $64.95
Pub Date: December 2003, 488 pages
Publisher: Sage Publications, Inc.

Copies can be ordered from SAGE Web site: www.sagepub.com

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Finding Words: Half a Nation by 2010

Interviewing Children and Preparing for Court - Responding to the need for professionals with highly specialized interviewing skills, APRI has developed a comprehensive interview training course on a national level for thousands of frontline child abuse professionals.

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NCPCA Conference Notebooks

A conference notebook containing training materials is compiled for each NCPCA conference. Extra copies of the training notebooks are kept at NCPCA and are available for sale. Though supplies are limited, NCPCA currently has the following notebooks in stock:

  • Beyond Finding Words: Emerging Issues in Forensic Interviewing, 2006
  • SAFETY NET: Multidisciplinary Approach to Investigating and Prosecuting Computer-Facilitated Child Sexual Exploitation, 2006.
  • Equal Justice: Investigation and Prosecution of Child Abuse, 2006
  • Investigation and Prosecution of Child Fatalities and Physical Abuse, 2006
  • Unsafe Havens I: Prosecuting On-Line Crimes Against Children, 2006
  • Unsafe Havens II and childPROOF: Please contact the National Advocacy Center for availability of these binders.

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