This essay is about child abuse, in relation to the different concepts of violence found in the book "Violence and its Alternatives", by Manfred B. Steger
Date Submitted: 02/02/2003 13:58:32
Category: / Law & Government / Civil Rights
Length: 4 pages (1115 words)
Category: / Law & Government / Civil Rights
Length: 4 pages (1115 words)
Hannah Arendt's concept of authority, as well as Robert Paul Wolff's concept of violence, can incorporate child abuse and why it may occur. Child abuse also called child maltreatment, is intentional acts that result in physical or emotional harm to children. It covers a wide range of behaviour from actual physical assault by parents or other adult caretakers to attacking a child's emotional development and self-worth. Neglect is another area of child abuse, one in …
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…reasons. Two of these possible motives are explained through Hannah Adrent's theory of authority and Robert Paul Wolff's concept of violence. Child abuse is a very common occurrence, one in which should be more monitored and observed.
Bibliography
"Child Abuse," Microsoft Encarta Online Encyclopaedia. 1997-2003
Betty, Marianne. "Journal of Policy, Practice and Program" Child Welfare League of
America. May/June 2003
Steger, Manfred B., Lind, Nancy S. Violence and its Alternatives. New York: St.
Martin's Press, 1999
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