PUBLIC LECTURE: Child Maltreatment Across Cultures

The relationship between culture and child maltreatment is complex, politically charged, and fraught with unresolved issues. A critical challenge in understanding and managing child maltreatment from the vantage point of different cultures is to both encompass cultural diversity and ensure equitable standards of care and well-being for children regardless of their cultural backgrounds. This presentation will examine the role of culture and context in the definition, etiology, prevention, and remediation of child maltreatment. Child maltreatment across cultures must also be seen in the larger context of stresses and supports for families and societal conditions.

Profile: Jill E. Korbin was awarded the Margaret Mead Award (1986) from the American Anthropological Association and the Society for Applied Anthropology and a Congressional Science Fellowship (1985-86) through the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the Society for Research in Child Development. She served on the National Academy of Sciences Panel on Research on Child Abuse and Neglect, the Institute of Medicine Panel on Pathophysiology and Prevention of Adolescent and Adult Suicide, and has consulted for the United States Advisory Board on Child Abuse and Neglect.

Professor Korbin has published numerous articles on culture and child maltreatment, including her edited book, Child Abuse and Neglect: Cross-Cultural Perspectives (1981, University of California Press), which was the first volume to examine the relationship of culture and child maltreatment. She also has published and conducted research on women incarcerated for fatal child maltreatment, on health, mental health and child rearing among Ohio’s Amish population, and on the impact of neighbourhood factors on child maltreatment and child well-being.

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