Comparative Research and Critical Child Protection Studies

Nigel Ashmore Parton
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Nigel Ashmore Parton: School of Human and Health Sciences, University of Huddersfield, Huddersfield HD1 3DH, UK

Social Sciences, 2022, vol. 11, issue 4, 1-15

Abstract: This article argues that two interrelated factors have played important roles in the emergence of academic analyses of child protection policies and practices: the evidence of growing strains and crises in child protection systems over the last forty years; and the development of comparative research on different systems. The latter has demonstrated that child protection policies and practices vary between different countries such that the differences could not be explained by differences in the nature of child maltreatment in the different societies—other political, social, and cultural factors were at play. This paper outlines the nature of these key developments and the conceptual frameworks which have emerged to explain the differences. A significant positive outcome is that such conceptual frameworks can be drawn upon for furthering our analyses of different policies, practices and systems and their possible reform and improvement.

Keywords: child protection; comparative research; child maltreatment (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: A B N P Y80 Z00 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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