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VICTIM, PERPETRATOR, OR WHAT ELSE?

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SOCIOLOGICAL STUDIES OF CHILDREN AND YOUTH

Series Editor: David A. Kinney (from 1999)

Series Editors: David A. Kinney and Katherine Brown Rosier (2004–2010)

Series Editors: David A. Kinney and Loretta E. Bass (from 2011)

Series Editor: Loretta E. Bass (from 2012)

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SOCIOLOGICAL STUDIES OF CHILDREN AND YOUTH VOLUME 25

VICTIM, PERPETRATOR, OR WHAT ELSE? GENERATIONAL AND GENDER PERSPECTIVES ON CHILDREN, YOUTH, AND VIOLENCE

EDITED BY

DORIS BÜHLER-NIEDERBERGER

University of Wuppertal, Germany

LARS ALBERTH

Leibniz University Hannover, Germany

SERIES EDITOR

LORETTA E. BASS

The University of Oklahoma, USA

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About the Contributors

Lars Alberth is Professor of Theories and Methods of Childhood Studies at Leuphana University Lüneburg, Germany. He is a Postdoc in the Sociology Department at Leibniz University Hannover, Germany. His research interests comprise professional responses to child maltreatment, the fabrication of culture, and interactionist theories of work and organization.

Vladlena Avdeeva is Junior Research Fellow at the Sociological Institute, Federal Center of Theoretical and Applied Sociology, Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg, Russian Federation. Research interests: institutional care for children, child protection systems.

Doris Bühler-Niederberger is Professor of Sociology at the University of Wuppertal, Germany. In her research she focuses on institutions and professions dealing with childhood and on age as a dimension of social structure and social order in different societies.

Myrna Dawson is Professor in Public Policy in Criminal Justice, and Director of the Centre for the Study of Social and Legal Responses to Violence, University of Guelph, Director of the Canadian Femicide Observatory for Justice and Accountability, and Co-Director of the Canadian Domestic Homicide Prevention Initiative with Vulnerable Populations.

Emily M. Douglas is Professor and Department Head of Social Science and Policy Studies at Worcester Polytechnic Institute in Massachusetts, USA.

Jordan Fairbairn is an Assistant Professor of Sociology and Criminology at King’s University College at Western University in London, Ontario. Jordan is a co-investigator with the Canadian Domestic Homicide Prevention Initiative with Vulnerable Populations and an expert panel member of the Canadian Femicide Observatory for Justice and Accountability.

Yitagesu Gebeyehu specialises in Gender based violence and has served as a Lecturer and Research Team Leader in CTE, Aysaita since 2012. He is affiliating GAGE as a qualitative researcher since 2018. He is co-author of ‘Exploring the Role of Gendered Social Norms in Shaping Adolescents’ Experience in Afar’.

Elvira Graner is habilitated (Privatdozentin) at the South Asia Institute of Heidelberg University. Assignments in South Asia include heading the Heidelberg Centre South Asia in New Delhi, a one-year consultancy at UNFPA (New Delhi) and being the Deputy Director of the International Centre of Advanced Studies: Metamorphoses of the Political (ICAS:MP).

Joan Hamory-Hicks is an Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of Oklahoma. Her research primarily focuses on transitions to adulthood among youth in low income countries, and has been published in outlets such as The Quarterly Journal of Economics and The European Journal of Political Economy.

Peter Jaffe is a Psychologist and Professor in the Faculty of Education at Western University and the Academic Director of the Centre for Research and Education on Violence Against Women & Children. He is the Co-Director of the Canadian Domestic Homicide Prevention Initiative with Vulnerable Populations.

Nicola Jones is a Principal Research Fellow at the Overseas Development Institute in London and the Director of the Gender and Adolescence: Global Evidence (GAGE) longitudinal research programme. Her research focuses on the intersection of gender, childhood and adolescence, social inclusion and social policy in the Global South.

Andreas Jud has a Chair on Child Maltreatment Epidemiology and Trends at University of Ulm, Germany, and is staff at Lucerne University of Applied Sciences, School of Social Work, Lucerne, Switzerland. His research interests encompass the empirical knowledge base on agency response to child maltreatment and decision-making in child protection.

Elena Kim is an Associate Professor of Social Sciences at the American University of Central Asia, Kyrgyzstan. Her research and areas of expertise include gender, gender violence, and institutional ethnography.

Robert van Krieken is Professor of Sociology at the University of Sydney, Adjunct Professor at the University of Tasmania, and Visiting Professor at University College Dublin. His research interests include criminology, childhood, and processes of civilization and decivilization.

Kerry A. Lee is a Doctoral Candidate at the University of Maryland, Baltimore, in the School of Social Work. Kerry’s research interest focuses on violence and social determinants of health, child maltreatment prevention, gender related issues, child and adolescent mental health services, and race and ethnic minority in child welfare.

Jamie O’Quinn is a Doctoral Candidate in the Department of Sociology at the University of Texas at Austin. Her work investigates gender, race, and youth sexualities.

Veronika Odinokova is a Senior Research Fellow at the Sociological Institute, Federal Center of Theoretical and Applied Sociology, Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg, Russian Federation. Research interests: violence prevention, sexual exploitation, research with children.

Maia Rusakova is Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Sociology, Saint Petersburg State University, Saint Petersburg, Russia. Research interests: prevention of sexual exploitation and human trafficking.

Danielle Sutton is a PhD Candidate in Sociology at the University of Guelph. She serves as a Senior Research Assistant at the Centre for the Study of Social and Legal Responses to Violence and her research focuses primarily on homicide, policing, and media constructions of violence.

Peter Voll is Professor and Head of the Research Institute at the School of Social Work HES-SO Valais-Wallis. He headed the first nation-wide research project on child protection structures and processes in Switzerland. His current research projects focus on organisational structure and professional action in child and adult protection.