Does professional and public opinion in child abuse differ? An issue of cross-cultural policy implementation

Child Abuse Review

Volumn 11, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 359-379

  Chan, Jasmine S ^a   Elliott, John M ^a   Chow, Yvonne ^b   Thomas, Joyce I ^b  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b Singapore Society   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Child abuse; Culture; Policy; Professional opinion; Public opinion

Indexed keywords

EID: 85013372830     PISSN: 09529136     EISSN: 10990852     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/car.767     Document Type: Article

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