What to read after Crime against Children?

Table of Contents

Preface                                 ix

Introduction                        1

General Aspects • A Horror Untold • Laws on Child Sexual Abuse in India • Sexual Abuse • Power Harassment • Rankism • Child-on-child Sexual Abuse • Child Neglect

Child Labour                         21

The Backdrop • Child Labour Areas • International Programme on Child Labour • Child Labour Amendment • Child Labour in India • Child Labour in the Diamond Industry • Reports • Initiatives against Child Labour • Child Slavery

Child Trafficking                 45

The Prevalence • Child-Sex-Tourism • Background • Global Response • New Phenomenon in Goa • Inflow of Tourists

Child Prostitution               59

Definitions • Terminology • Causes and Contexts • Prohibition • Extent • Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children • Forms of Sexual Exploitation • Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act • Child Sexuality

Child Pornography              79

Terminology • Relation to Child Molestation and Abuse • Typology • Organised Crimes • Relationship with Sexual Abuse • Copine Scale

Child Marriage                     99

Child Marriage by Religion • Child Marriage by Region and Country

School Violence                   109

International Character • Risk Factors • Corporal Punishment • Rituals and Punishment • Paraphilia and Fetishism

Exploitation of Children by Military       127

War Crimes • International Laws • International Humanitarian Law • International Labour Law

Juvenile Delinquency           149

Juvenile Sex Crimes • Risk Factors • Societal Consequences

Street Children                     161

Definitions • Numbers and Distribution • Countrywise Position • Stolen Generations • Child Removal Policy • Policy in Practice • Child Abandonment

Society and Children            191

Child Support • Legal Theory • Child Support Industry

Children’s Rights                 207

Definitions • Types of Rights • International Law • Convention on the Rights of the Child • Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action • Enforcement • Convention on the Rights of the Child • Children’s Rights Movement

Social Laws and Children    219

Best Interests of the Child • Child Benefits • Child Imprisonment

Legal Protection                  231

Legal Provisions • Patronage by Courts

Case Studies                          269

Nithari Serial Murders • School Shooting • Kelsey Smith-Briggs • Beslan School Hostage Crisis • Other Incidents and Controversies • Holy Cross Dispute

Bibliography                         341

Index                                     349