Seeking Justice in Child Sexual Abuse: Shifting Burdens and Sharing Responsibilities

Edited by Karen M. Staller and Kathleen Coulborn Faller

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November, 2009
Cloth, 288 pages, 6 halftones, 6 tables
ISBN: 978-0-231-14614-2
$50.00 / £34.50

"Readers are left with a professional model to consider, as well as an understanding of how systems change and develop . . . Highly recommended." — Choice

"Seeking Justice in Child Sexual Abuse is a thorough, well-written treatment of one county's effort to respond to child sexual abuse. It is not a dry academic study. Rather, it is a story of real people, and the reader gets to know them in some detail. Coordinating the response to child sexual abuse is challenging, and this book offers many useful insights into succeeding at such coordination." — John Myers, University of the Pacific, McGeorge School of Law, and author of A Mother's Nightmare: Incest-A Practical Legal Guide for Parents and Professionals

Related Subjects

• Criminal Justice
• Social Work
• Social Work Methods and Practice

About the Author

Karen M. Staller, Ph.D., J.D., is associate professor of social work at the University of Michigan School of Social Work and the author of Runaways: How the Sixties Counterculture Shaped Today's Practices and Policies. She has practiced public interest law with low-income senior citizens and at-risk adolescents in New York City.Kathleen Coulborn Faller, Ph.D., A.C.S.W., D.C.S.W., is the Marion Elizabeth Blue Professor of Children and Families in the School of Social Work at the University of Michigan. She is also director of the University of Michigan's Family Assessment Clinic and principal investigator on their Training Program on Recruitment and Retention of Child Welfare Workers, as well as principal investigator of their Hasbro Early Assessment Project. Among her many publications are Maltreatment in Early Childhood: Tools for Research-Based Intervention, Interviewing Children about Sexual Abuse, and Child Sexual Abuse: An Interdisciplinary Manual for Diagnosis, Case Management, and Treatment.

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