Children's Human Rights in the USA: Challenges and Opportunities

Vissing, Yvonne

Children's Human Rights in the USA: Challenges and Opportunities
  • 出版商: Springer
  • 出版日期: 2024-07-20
  • 售價: $5,950
  • 貴賓價: 9.5 折 $5,653
  • 語言: 英文
  • 頁數: 806
  • 裝訂: Quality Paper - also called trade paper
  • ISBN: 3031308506
  • ISBN-13: 9783031308505

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商品描述

This book critically examines why a human rights framework would improve the wellbeing and status of young people. It explores children's rights to provision, protection, and participation from human rights and clinical sociological perspectives, and from historical to contemporary events. It discusses how different ideologies have shaped the way we view children and their place in society, and how, despite the rhetoric of children's protection, people under 18 years of age experience more poverty, violence, and oppression than other group in society. The book points to the fact that the USA is the only member of the United Nations not to ratify a children's human rights treaty; and the impact of this decision finds US children less healthy and less safe than children in other developed countries. It shows how a rights-respecting framework could be created to improve the lives of our youngest citizens - and the future of democracy.
Authored by a renowned clinical sociologist and international human rights scholar, this book is of interest to researchers, students, social workers and policymakers working in the area of children's wellbeing and human rights.

商品描述(中文翻譯)

本書批判性地探討了為何人權框架能改善年輕人的福祉和地位。它從人權和臨床社會學的角度，以及從歷史到當代事件，探討了兒童在供給、保護和參與方面的權利。書中討論了不同意識形態如何塑造我們對兒童及其在社會中地位的看法，以及儘管有關兒童保護的言辭，18歲以下的人在社會中卻經歷了比其他群體更多的貧困、暴力和壓迫。本書指出，美國是唯一未簽署兒童人權條約的聯合國成員國；這一決定的影響使得美國兒童的健康和安全程度低於其他發達國家的兒童。它展示了如何建立一個尊重權利的框架，以改善我們最年輕公民的生活——以及民主的未來。

本書由一位著名的臨床社會學家和國際人權學者撰寫，對於從事兒童福祉和人權領域的研究者、學生、社會工作者和政策制定者而言，具有重要的參考價值。

作者簡介

​Yvonne Vissing, Ph.D., is a clinical sociologist focusing on pediatrics and community sociology. She is the author of 15 books about children's wellbeing and is the US policy chair for the Hope for Children UN Convention of the Rights of the Child Policy Center. She is a member of the Human Rights Council for the American Association for the Advancement of Science, member of the Steering Committee of the Human Rights Educators USA, former National Institute of Mental Health Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, and 2021 fellow at the University of Connecticut Dodd Human Rights Center Dialogue and Democracy Initiative. She is a former board member of the National Coalition for the Homeless and the New Hampshire Juvenile Parole Board as well as a former family-child mental health counselor in Kentucky. She received the 2021 Distinguished Career Award in the sociology of children for the American Sociological Association's section on Children and Youth.
Vissing is professor and founding director of the Center for Childhood & Youth Studies at Salem State University, USA, where she is also co-founder of its Department of Healthcare Studies. Her research interests include human rights, clinical sociology, mental health, homelessness, community development, instrument development, public health, violence, social movements, sociology of law, mediation, and the use of dialogue to address community problems. She is also a Santa Claus expert who owns a small horse farm in New Hampshire.

作者簡介(中文翻譯)

Yvonne Vissing, Ph.D.，是一位專注於兒科和社區社會學的臨床社會學家。她是關於兒童福祉的15本書的作者，並擔任美國「希望兒童聯合國兒童權利公約政策中心」的政策主席。她是美國科學促進協會人權委員會的成員，也是美國人權教育者指導委員會的成員，曾任國家心理健康研究所的博士後研究員，並於2021年成為康乃狄克大學多德人權中心對話與民主倡議的研究員。她曾擔任全國無家可歸者聯盟和新罕布什爾州青少年假釋委員會的董事會成員，以及肯塔基州的家庭兒童心理健康顧問。她因在兒童社會學領域的卓越職業成就而獲得美國社會學協會兒童與青少年專區的2021年傑出職業獎。

Vissing是美國塞勒姆州立大學兒童與青少年研究中心的教授及創始主任，同時也是該校醫療保健研究系的共同創辦人。她的研究興趣包括人權、臨床社會學、心理健康、無家可歸、社區發展、工具開發、公共衛生、暴力、社會運動、法律社會學、調解以及利用對話解決社區問題。她還是一位聖誕老人專家，擁有一個位於新罕布什爾州的小馬場。

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