Institutional Abuse
Subtitle: Perspectives Across the Life Course
Publisher: Routledge
Published: August 1999
Language: eng
Number of pages: 242
ISBN-13: 9780415187015
First sentence: The abuse of children in residential settings has sprung to the fore of public consciousness in the 1990s through a series of inquiries and court cases that have been reported in detail by the media.
Description: This text brings together a number of different research studies and accounts of institutional abuse from academics and researchers. Four areas of abuse are covered, and each section includes a chapter which reports on users' experiences of abuse.