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Volume 3, issue 4, 2014

Addressing the Clinical Burden of Child Physical Abuse and Neglect in a Large Metropolitan Region: Improving the Evidence-Base pp. 1-14

Shanti Raman, Michelle Maiese, Katrina Hurley and David Greenfield

Patterns and Correlates for Bullying among Young Adolescents in Ghana pp. 1-14

Emmanuel O. Acquah, Michael L. Wilson and David T. Doku

Regional Frameworks for Safeguarding Children: The Role of the African Committee of Experts on the Rights and Welfare of the Child pp. 1-14

Julia Sloth-Nielsen

Protecting Children and Adolescents in Uruguay: Civil Society’s Role in Policy Reform pp. 1-21

Amy Risley

Dealing with Risk in Child and Family Social Work: From an Anxious to a Reflexive Professional? pp. 1-13

Eline Vyvey, Rudi Roose, Lieselot De Wilde and Griet Roets

Yahoo! Answers as a Space for Informal Language Learning pp. 1-13

Giuliana Dettori and Simone Torsani

The Productive Uses of Conflict in Child Protection pp. 1-15

Doug Magnuson

The Child Protection System from the Perspective of Young People: Messages from 3 Studies pp. 1-18

Carme Montserrat

Child Welfare and Successful Reunification through the Socio-Educative Process: Training Needs among Biological Families in Spain pp. 1-18

M. Angeles Balsells, Crescencia Pastor, Pere Amorós, Ainoa Mateos, Carmen Ponce and Alicia Navajas

Child Protection Victims and the “Evil Institutions” pp. 1-16

Carolus Van Nijnatten, Marit Hopman and Trudie Knijn

A Critical Examination of Child Protection Initiatives in Sport Contexts pp. 1-16

Gretchen Kerr, Ashley Stirling and Ellen MacPherson

Current Debates on Variability in Child Welfare Decision-Making: A Selected Literature Review pp. 1-25

Emily Keddell

Social Inclusion in Swedish Public Service Television: The Representation of Gender, Ethnicity and People with Disabilities as Program Leaders for Children’s Programs pp. 1-5

Juha M. Alatalo and Anna Ostapenko Alatalo

Practicing from Theory: Thinking and Knowing to “Do” Child Protection Work pp. 1-23

Susan Young, Margaret McKenzie, Cecilie Omre, Liv Schjelderup and Shayne Walker

Child Protection and Vulnerable Families: Trends and Issues in the Australian Context pp. 1-24

Elizabeth Fernandez

Needs Assessment of an Ethnic Chinese Community in Japan pp. 1-17

Li-Mei Chen

Who Owns Child Abuse? pp. 1-17

Gerald Cradock

“I Know People Think I’m a Complete Pain in the Neck”: An Examination of the Introduction of Child Protection and “Safeguarding” in English Sport from the Perspective of National Governing Body Safeguarding Lead Officers pp. 1-22

Mike Hartill and Melanie Lang

Concerted Practice-Based Actions in Intimate Partner and Family Violence: When the Children’s Well-Being Is the Central Concern pp. 1-22

Geneviève Lessard, Marie-Eve Drouin, Anne-Sophie Germain, Pamela Alvarez-Lizotte and Pierre Turcotte

Language in the Wild—Living the Carnival in Social Media pp. 1-22

Sylvi Vigmo and Annika Lantz-Andersson

I Am Therefore I Do: Group Identification and Effort for the Achievement Goals pp. 1-7

Gerhard Reese and Julia Dietrich

Volume 3, issue 3, 2014

Child Protection in Sport: Reflections on Thirty Years of Science and Activism pp. 1-15

Celia H. Brackenridge and Daniel Rhind

Gathering the Voices: Disseminating the Message of the Holocaust for the Digital Generation by Applying an Interdisciplinary Approach pp. 1-15

Angela Shapiro, Brian McDonald and Aidan Johnston

Implementing a Mobile Social Media Framework for Designing Creative Pedagogies pp. 1-19

Thomas Cochrane and Laurent Antonczak

Developing Child-Centered Social Policies: When Professionalism Takes Over pp. 1-19

Nicole Hennum

The Australian Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse: Dreaming of Child Safe Organisations? pp. 1-19

William Budiselik, Frances Crawford and Donna Chung

Vulnerable Family Meetings: A Way of Promoting Team Working in GPs’ Everyday Responses to Child Maltreatment? pp. 1-18

Jenny Woodman, Ruth Gilbert, Danya Glaser, Janice Allister and Marian Brandon

The Voice of the Child in Child Protection: Whose Voice? pp. 1-13

Margaret Bruce

Technology-Based Innovations in Child Maltreatment Prevention Programs: Examples from SafeCare® pp. 1-14

Melissa Cowart-Osborne, Matthew Jackson, Elizabeth Chege, Evander Baker, Daniel Whitaker and Shannon Self-Brown

Comparing Pedophile Activity in Different P2P Systems pp. 1-12

Raphaël Fournier, Thibault Cholez, Matthieu Latapy, Isabelle Chrisment, Clémence Magnien, Olivier Festor and Ivan Daniloff

Coping with a Self-Induced Shock: The Heterarchic Organization of the London Olympic Games 2012 pp. 1-22

Gernot Grabher and Joachim Thiel

Time is of the Essence: Risk and the Public Law Outline, Judicial Discretion and the Determination of a Child’s Best Interests pp. 1-22

Penelope Welbourne

“Under His Spell”: Victims’ Perspectives of Being Groomed Online pp. 1-23

Helen C. Whittle, Catherine E. Hamilton-Giachritsis and Anthony R. Beech

Mandatory Reporting Laws and Identification of Child Abuse and Neglect: Consideration of Differential Maltreatment Types, and a Cross-Jurisdictional Analysis of Child Sexual Abuse Reports pp. 1-23

Ben Mathews

The Relationship between “Protection of” and “Violence Against” Infants and Young Children: The U.S. Experience, 1940–2005 pp. 1-10

Jack E. Riggs and Gerald R. Hobbs

Epilogue: The Machinery of Urban Resilience pp. 1-6

Ash Amin

On the Design of Social Media for Learning pp. 1-16

Jon Dron and Terry Anderson

Urgent Protection versus Chronic Need: Clarifying the Dual Mandate of Child Welfare Services across Canada pp. 1-16

Nico Trocmé, Alicia Kyte, Vandna Sinha and Barbara Fallon

Socioeconomic Position and Low Birth Weight: Evaluating Multiple and Alternative Measures Across Race in Michigan pp. 1-16

Cedric A. L. Taylor and Dilshani Sarathchandra

Volume 3, issue 2, 2014

A Comparison of Tablet-Based and Paper-Based Survey Data Collection in Conservation Projects pp. 1-8

Craig Leisher

Stanley Milgram’s Obedience to Authority “Relationship” Condition: Some Methodological and Theoretical Implications pp. 1-21

Nestar Russell

Governing Through Resilience? Exploring Flood Protection in Dresden, Germany pp. 1-16

Gérard Hutter, Markus Leibenath and Annika Mattissek

Sexual Motivations and Ideals Distinguish Sexual Identities within the Self-Concept: A Multidimensional Scaling Analysis pp. 1-12

Celeste Sangiorgio, Warren A. Reich, Andrea C. Vial and Mirko Savone

Correction: Bouvet F., et al., Debt Contagion in Europe: A Panel-Vector Autoregressive (VAR) Analysis. Soc. Sci. 2013, 2, 318–340 pp. 1-1

Martin J. Bull

Gender Socialization and Identity Theory pp. 1-22

Michael J. Carter

Adolescent Physical Fighting in Ghana, Their Demographic and Social Characteristics pp. 1-15

Emmanuel O. Acquah, Jennifer K. Lloyd, Laura Davis and Michael L. Wilson

Has Austerity Succeeded in Ameliorating the Economic Climate? The Cases of Ireland, Cyprus and Greece pp. 1-20

Marcell Zoltán Végh

Volume 3, issue 1, 2014

Intercorrelations of Intimacy and Identity Dating Goals with Relationship Behaviors and Satisfaction among Young Heterosexual Couples pp. 1-16

Melanie J. Zimmer-Gembeck, Vanessa Arnhold and Jennifer Connolly

An Instrument to Investigate Expectations about and Experiences of the Parent-Child Relationship: The Parent-Child Relationship Schema Scale pp. 1-31

Marcia Dixson, Emily Bermes and Suze Fair

On Resilience pp. 1-11

David Stark

Once You Are In You Might Need to Get Out: Adaptation and Adaptability in Volatile Labor Markets—the Case of Musical Actors pp. 1-23

Oliver Ibert and Suntje Schmidt

Performance of Survey Forecasts by Professional Analysts: Did the European Debt Crisis Make it Harder or Perhaps Even Easier? pp. 1-12

Frederik Kunze and Mario Gruppe

The Eurozone Crisis: Psychological Mechanisms Undermining and Supporting European Solidarity pp. 1-12

Gerhard Reese and Oliver Lauenstein

Acknowledgement to Reviewers of Social Sciences in 2013 pp. 1-2

Social Sciences Editorial Office

Your Resilience is My Vulnerability: ‘Rules in Use’ in a Local Water Conflict pp. 1-21

Frank Sondershaus and Timothy Moss

Peer Influence and Attraction to Interracial Romantic Relationships pp. 1-13

Justin J. Lehmiller, William G. Graziano and Laura E. VanderDrift

Limits of Religious Analogy: The Example of Celebrity pp. 1-13

Nathalie Heinich

Coping with Break-Ups: Rebound Relationships and Gender Socialization pp. 1-20

Cassie Shimek and Richard Bello

Local Constructions of Vulnerability and Resilience in the Context of Climate Change. A Comparison of Lübeck and Rostock pp. 1-18

Gabriela B. Christmann, Karsten Balgar and Nicole Mahlkow