This book describes the concept of child victimization in all its facets. Millions of young people throughout the world face violence, sexual, physical, and emotional abuse and exploitation on a daily basis. The worldwide victimization of young people can be prevented, or, at least, its incidence can be greatly reduced, if purposeful action is taken to do so. This volume researches and documents some of the ways in which young people throughout the world are victimized, and suggests strategies for preventing various forms of child vistimization. Eight distinct forms of victimization are identified and analyzed in detail. Included are discussions on child prostitution and pornography, economic exploitation through child labor and trafficking, physical and other abuse inflicted on young people in schools and other institutions, the use of children as armed combatants, and the denial of the basic needs and rights of children to such things as home and to education. In each chapter the authors discuss the nature of the victimization, its global dimensions and prevalence, and the measures governments and/or others are taking, or failing to take, to combat the harm based on the concept that youth victimization is a form of government crime.
At the age of twelve, Rukmini, daughter of a village priest, is wed to Sarangan, a sophisticated journalist seventeen years her senior. Although this stranger would take her away from the only life sheOCOs known, Rukmini has been raised to treat her parentsOCO intentions as her own. Though loneliness consumes her, she comes to love him and finds happiness as a young wife and mother. Thus begins her 'lucky life.' When tragedy strikes, Rukmini is left alone to navigate the outside world to fend for herself and her children, surviving in a hostile and unforgiving society. In this poignant debut, S. Priyadarsini weaves an intricate tale of a womanOCOs search for love, acceptance, and triumph in a society where a woman is a mere extension of her father, husband, or sonOCoseen but not heard.
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