Violence Against Children adopts in its title the exhortation of Nobel Laureate Amartya Sen, "Making Human Rights Real," which also represents the leitmotif of the book. It examines the prevalence of violence against children in Africa, the Asia Pacific Region, Europe, Latin America and the Caribbean, and in the United States, and explores major ways of its prevention. Making human rights real engenders the challenge of helping all children to be free from violence and to lead a life replete with genuine nurture and the elimination of all violence. Only in this manner will the goal of the United Nations 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development -target 16.2-be achieved and the child as a rights-bearing individual realized in her/his fullness.

List of Contributors. Foreword. Preface: Freedom from Violence for All Children. Acknowledgments. Chapter 1: Violence against Children: From a Hidden Phenomenon to a Global Concern. Part I. General and International Dimensions of Violence against Children. Chapter 2: Violence against Children: Endemic, Detrimental, Preventable. Chapter 3: INSPIRE: Using the Best Evidence to Prevent Violence against Children. Chapter 4: The Global Movement to End All Corporal Punishment of Children. Chapter 5: Confronting Child Exploitation: The Optional Protocols and the Role of Children's Rights Law. Chapter 6: Violence Against Children in Africa. Chapter 7: Violence against Children in the Asia Pacific Region. Chapter 8: Current Perspectives on Violence against Children in Europe. Chapter 9: Violence against Children in Latin America and the Caribbean: A Review of Population-Based Data Available for Measuring Progress Towards the Sustainable Development Goals. Chapter 10: Epigenetic and Multigenerational Impact of Adversity. PART II. Violence against Children and the United States. Chapter 11: Violence in the Lives of Children in the United States. Chapter 12: The U.S. Department of Justice Defending Childhood Initiative: Advancing the Cause of Children Exposed to Violence. Chapter 13: The Problem of Corporal Punishment and the Solution of Positive Parenting in the United States. Chapter 14: The Violence of Child Poverty. Chapter 15: The Violence of Child Homelessness. Chapter 16: The Urgent Need to Disrupt Structural Violence against Children in American Foster Care. Chapter 17: School to Prison Pipeline. Chapter 18: Racial and Ethnic Disparities of Children in the United States: Pursuing Equity and Engaging Structural Racism in Youth Serving Systems. Chapter 19: Youth Prisons as a Form of Violence: An International Human Rights Perspective.