Oxford Handbook of Child Protection Systems

Jill Duerr Berrick serves as the Zellerbach Family Foundation Professor in the School of Social Welfare at U.C. Berkeley. Berrick's research focuses on the relationship of the state to vulnerable families, particularly those touched by the child welfare system. She has written or co-written 11 books on topics relating to family poverty, child maltreatment, and child welfare services and has written extensively for academic journals. Berrick's research approach typically relies upon the voices of service system consumers to identify the impacts of social problems and social service solutions in family life. Her newest book, The Impossible Imperative: Navigating the Competing Principles of Child Protection examines child welfare professionals and the morally contentious and intellectually demanding choices they regularly face in their work with children and families.

Neil Gilbert is Chernin Professor of Social Welfare at U.C. Berkeley. He has served as a Senior Research Fellow at the United Nations Research Institute for Social Development and a Visiting Scholar at the International Social Security Association in Geneva. Gilbert was awarded two Senior Fulbright Research Fellowships to study European Social Policy at the London School of Economics, the National Institute of Social Work and the University of Stockholm. He has served as a visiting Professor at McGill University and Hamburg University.
His publications include thirty-two books and over 130 articles that have appeared in The Wall Street Journal, The Public Interest, Society, Commentary, and leading academic journals. Several of his books were translated into Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and Italian and widely reviewed in venues such as the New York Times, the New York Review of Books, The New Republic, the Wall Street Journal, and the Atlantic. Gilbert is chairman of the Board of Seneca Family of Agencies and a recipient of the University of Pittsburgh Bicentennial Medallion of Distinction.

Marit Skivenes is a professor in political science at the University of Bergen, Norway, and the director of Centre for Research on Discretion and Paternalism.
Prof. Skivenes has published numerous research articles in the field of child protection and children´s rights, with a focus is on the legitimacy of state interventions and the quality of decisions made in the best interest of the child. She has been the Principal Investigator for large international research projects, and been co-editor on several cross-country books on child protection.

Table of Contents

1 Child Protection Systems Across the World
Jill Duerr Berrick, Neil Gilbert and Marit Skivenes

Section I - Institutionalized
2 Child Protection in Australia and New Zealand: An Overview of Systems
Judith Cashmore and Nicola Taylor
3 The Austrian Child Welfare System: Moving Towards Professionalization and Participation
Katrin Kriz, Jenny Krutzinna and Peter Pantucek-Eisenbacher
4 Child Protection in Belgium: An Overview of the Systems
Johan Vanderfaeillie, Erik Van Dooren and Jessica Segers
5 Child Welfare in Canada
Nico Trocmé, Melanie Doucet, Barbara Fallon, Jennifer Nutton, and Tonino Esposito
6 The Child Protection Systems in Denmark and Norway
Anne-Dorthe Hestbæk, Marit Skivenes, Asgeir Falch-Eriksen, Idamarie Leth Svendsen and Elisabeth Backe-Hansen
7 Child Welfare and Child Protection Services in England
June Thoburn
8 Child Protection in Finland and Sweden
Ingrid Höjer and Tarja Pösö
9 Child Protection and Welfare in France
Flora Bolter
10 Child Protection and Welfare in Germany
Kay Biesel and Heinz Kindler
11 Child Protection and Welfare on the Island of Ireland: Irish Issues, Global Relevance
Kenneth Burns, John Devaney, Stephanie Holt and Gerry Marshall
12 Child Protection in Israel
Daphna Gross-Manos, Eran Melkman and Aya Almog-Zaken
13 Child Protection in Mediterranean Countries: Italy and Greece
Teresa Bertotti, Roberta T. Di Rosa, Charis Asimopoulos
14 A New Era for Child Protection in Japan
Shoko Tokunaga, Mitsuru Fukui, Misa Saigo and Saki Nagano
15 The Child Protection System in the Netherlands: Characteristics, Trends, and Evidence
Erik J. Knorth, Helen Bouma, Hans Grietens and Mónica López López
16 The Development of the Korean Child Protection System: Cultural Influences, Unique Challenges, and Policy Strategies
Yiyoon Chung and TJ Lah
17 Child Protection Systems in Spain
Sagrario Segado
18 Child Protection and Children's Services in Switzerland
Stefan Schnurr
19 Child Protection in the United States
Jennifer Lawson and Jill Duerr Berrick

Section II - Emerging
20 The Chilean Child Protection System
Carolina Muñoz-Guzman, Miguel Cillero Bruñol, Mariana Bernasconi
21 Czech Child Protection after 1989: Between Socialist Legacy and the European Call for Democratic Legitimacy
Victoria Shmidt
22 Child Protection Systems in Estonia and Latvia
Merle Linno and Judit Strömpl
23 Child Protection in Lithuania
Ilona Tamutiene, Dalija Snieskiene
24 Child Protection in Poland
Violetta Tanas
25 Child Protection in Portugal
Jorge Ferreira
26 Child Protection System in the Slovak Republic
Kvasnáková Lenka, Balogová Beáta
27 Child Protection in South Africa
Julia Sloth-Nielsen
28 Child Protection System in Uruguay
María del Luján González Tornaría and Delfina Miller

Section III - Nascent
29 Building the Child Protection System in Argentina
Carla Villata and Valeria Lobet
30 Child Protection Systems in Brazil
Diene Monique Carlos, Ailton de Souza Aragão, Eliana Mendes de Souza Teixeira Roque, Lygie Maria Pereira da Silva
31 Child Protection Policy and Service in China
Fang Zhao and Zanfeng Xu
32 Colombian Child Protection System
María Cristina Torrado P. and Ernesto Duran Strauch
33 Ecuador: Child Protection Systems
Verónica Jiménez Borja, Micaela Jiménez Borja, and Teresa Borja Álvarez
34 Child Protection in Egypt
Hmoud S. Olimat and Amal A. ElGama
35 Child Protection Systems in Ghana
Mavis Dako-Gyeke, Abigail Adubea Mills, and Doris Akyere Boateng
36 Child Protection System in India: An Overview
Sanjai Bhatt and Subhashree Sanyal
37 The Social Construction and Development of an Integrated Child Protection System: In Search of Core Templates in a Diversified and Decentralized Indonesia
Erna Dinata
38 Child Protection in Iran
Marzieh Takaffoli, Meroe Vameghi, Maliheh Arshi, Leila Ostadhashemi
39 Child Protection in Lebanon
Hoda Rizk
40 Children at Risk in Mexico: Issues, Policies, and Interventions
Martha Frías Armenta
41 Child Protection System in Nigeria
Chimezie Elekwachi
42 Protecting Children in the Philippines: A System Focused Overview of Policy and Practice
Steven Roche and Florence Flores-Pasos
43 Reforming Russia's Child Protection System: From Residential to Family Care
Meri Kulmala, Maija Jäppinen and Zhanna Chernova
44 Child Protection Systems in Uganda
Deogratias Yiga
45 Making Child Protection Systems Work for Children: Lessons from Zimbabwe
Mildred T. Mushunje

Conclusion
46 Child Protection Systems: A Global Typology
Jill Duerr Berrick, Neil Gilbert and Marit Skivenes