Heather Montgomery is Professor of Anthropology and Childhood at the Open University.

"Heather Montgomery’s Familiar Violence is an extraordinary account of the multiple ways children have been abused. It is a sensitive and subtle historical and anthropological story about childhood as well as the abuses inflicted on children. Montgomery is not afraid of asking difficult questions, and providing her readers with her own reflections on how they can be answered.  Familiar Violence transforms our understanding of childhood, abuse, and vulnerability."Joanna Bourke, Birkbeck, University of London

• Introduction: Personal Reflections and Disciplinary PerspectivesChapter One: InfanticideChapter Two: Abandonment, Parish Nursing and Baby FarmersChapter Three: Neglect and NegligenceChapter Four: Discipline, Socialisation, and Physical AbuseChapter Five: Incest and Child Sexual Abuse in the HomeChapter Six: Intervening, Prosecuting and Preventing AbuseChapter Seven: The Rise and Fall of Child Abuse ExpertsConclusions: Child Abuse Now and in the Future

Heather Montgomery is Professor of Anthropology and Childhood at the Open University.

"Heather Montgomery’s Familiar Violence is an extraordinary account of the multiple ways children have been abused. It is a sensitive and subtle historical and anthropological story about childhood as well as the abuses inflicted on children. Montgomery is not afraid of asking difficult questions, and providing her readers with her own reflections on how they can be answered.  Familiar Violence transforms our understanding of childhood, abuse, and vulnerability."Joanna Bourke, Birkbeck, University of London

• Introduction: Personal Reflections and Disciplinary PerspectivesChapter One: InfanticideChapter Two: Abandonment, Parish Nursing and Baby FarmersChapter Three: Neglect and NegligenceChapter Four: Discipline, Socialisation, and Physical AbuseChapter Five: Incest and Child Sexual Abuse in the HomeChapter Six: Intervening, Prosecuting and Preventing AbuseChapter Seven: The Rise and Fall of Child Abuse ExpertsConclusions: Child Abuse Now and in the Future

Heather Montgomery is Professor of Anthropology and Childhood at the Open University.

"Heather Montgomery’s Familiar Violence is an extraordinary account of the multiple ways children have been abused. It is a sensitive and subtle historical and anthropological story about childhood as well as the abuses inflicted on children. Montgomery is not afraid of asking difficult questions, and providing her readers with her own reflections on how they can be answered.  Familiar Violence transforms our understanding of childhood, abuse, and vulnerability."Joanna Bourke, Birkbeck, University of London

• Introduction: Personal Reflections and Disciplinary PerspectivesChapter One: InfanticideChapter Two: Abandonment, Parish Nursing and Baby FarmersChapter Three: Neglect and NegligenceChapter Four: Discipline, Socialisation, and Physical AbuseChapter Five: Incest and Child Sexual Abuse in the HomeChapter Six: Intervening, Prosecuting and Preventing AbuseChapter Seven: The Rise and Fall of Child Abuse ExpertsConclusions: Child Abuse Now and in the Future