Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

-- Protecting children from violence : historical roots and emerging trends / James Michael Lampinen & Kathy Sexton Radek -- Exposure to violence : who is most effected and why? / James Galezewski -- Protecting children in their homes : effective prevention programs and policies / Lyndon Abrams & Sharon G. Portwood -- Empirically-based violence prevention interventions / Kathy Sexton-Radek -- Identifying children potentially at risk for serious maladjustment due to peer victimization : a new model using receiver operating characteristics (ROC) analysis / Rebecca A. Newgent ... [et al.] -- Interviewing child victims : advances in the scientific understanding of child eyewitness memory / Timothy N. Odegard ... [et al.] -- Missing and abducted children / James Michael Lampinen ... [et al.] -- Looking both ways before crossing the information superhighway : issues of concern for minors in cyberspace / Christopher S. Peters, Robin M. Kowalski, & L. Alvin Malesky, Jr. -- Public attitudes toward applying sex offender registration laws to juvenile offenders / Jessica M. Salerno ... [et al.] -- Mediating factors in the long-term outcome following childhood abuse : cognitive and other factors predicting personal distress, intimacy functioning, and resilience / Patricia A. Petretic & Elizabeth White Chaisson -- Cognitive development and exposure to violence in children / Robert Schleser & Mary E. Bodzy -- Snakes, spiders, strangers : how the evolved fear of strangers may misdirect efforts to protect children from harm / Jennifer Hahn-Holbrook, Colin Holbrook & Jesse Bering -- International perspectives on domestic violence / Paula T. McWhirter & Elizabeth Altshuler-Bard -- Protecting children from the violence of global health inequities : working beyond academic halls and clinic walls / Chris E. Stout -- Protecting children from violence : historical roots and emerging trends : conclusions / Kathy Sexton-Radek & James Michael Lampinen.