Unsafe Home: Child Harming within the Family

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In Unsafe Home: Child Harming within the Family, Limor Ezioni focuses on the three major types of child harming within the familyabuse, incest, and filicideand provides an in-depth exploration of each type historically, legally, and comparatively. In the first part, focusing on abuse executed on children, Ezioni addresses both physical and emotional abuse, discussing what constitutes child abuse, how it should be punished, and whether any damage caused to a child is prosecutable by law. In the second part of the book, Ezioni examines childhood incest, focusing on adult survivors and the multitude of legal problems they face while attempting to pursue justice through the legal system and questioning whether the current legal and criminal provisions provide sufficient protection for survivors. In the final section of the book, Ezioni examine the filicide phenomenon and how the judicial system in western countries deals with the painful reality that reflects the society in which it occursfilicide is often carried out by parents who are unable to function as a parent in circumstances dictated by the place and time in which they live. Scholars of legal studies, family studies, criminology, and sociology will find this book particularly useful.

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This fascinating book provides a wide-ranging account of the phenomena of child abuse, incest and filicide within the family unit, from a sociological and legal perspective. It is essential reading for anyone who has a professional or personal interest in understanding these dangers and protecting children from them.

--Rhona Schuz, professor of law and co-director, Center for the Rights of the Child and the Family at the Academic Center of Law and Science, Israel.

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Limor Ezioni is practicing attorney and legal consultant and former Dean of Law at The Academic Center of Law and Science.