Lost Innocents A Follow-Up Study of Fatal Child Abuse

Lost Innocents reports the authors second major study into fatal child abuse in the United Kingdom. The book is a follow-up to the influential Beyond Blame: Child Abuse Tragedies Revisited, which was a comprehensive attempt to identify practice lessons from tragedies which would be used to improve child protection practice. In this book the authors review the knowledge about fatal child abuse, and discuss an interactional framework for understanding child abuse and professionals responses to it. They stress the importance of developing preventive strategies and the need for improved liaison between professional agencies. Suggestions are also made for improving the recognition and assessment of risk to children. The book ends with a discussion of whether child abuse fatalities can be predicted or prevented. Lost Innocents: A Follow-up Study of Fatal Child Abuse will be useful to all professionals concerned with the practice and teaching of child protection, as well as those responsible for policy.Reder, Peter is the author of 'Lost Innocents A Follow-Up Study of Fatal Child Abuse' with ISBN 9780415202695 and ISBN 0415202698.