Child abuse and neglect : [electronic resource] cross-cultural perspectives / edited by Jill E. Korbin ; with forewords by Robert B. Edgerton and C. Henry Kempe.

Includes bibliographies and index.

Child abuse and cultural values: the case of New Guinea / L.L. Langness -- Child abuse and neglect in Sub-Saharan Africa / Sarah LeVine and Robert LeVine -- The socioeconomic context of child abuse and neglect in native South America / Orna R. Johnson -- Child rearing and social structure in rural India: toward a cross-cultural definition of child abuse and neglect / Thomas Poffenberger -- Socioeconomic and psycho-cultural contexts of child abuse and neglect in Turkey / Emelie A. Olson -- Child abandonment and infanticide: a Japanese case / Hiroshi Wagatsuma -- Child abuse in Taiwan / David Y. Wu -- "Very few cases": child abuse and neglect in the People's Republic of China / Jill E. Korbin -- Child rearing and child abuse: the Polynesian context / Jane Ritchie and James Ritchie.