Child Physical Abuse
Definition
Non-accidental physical injury to a child, first clinically named as battered-child syndrome by Henry Kempe and colleagues in a 1962 JAMA paper that triggered the first mandatory-reporting statutes.
Related terms
- Coercive Control
- A pattern of behaviour in intimate relationships that seeks to deny autonomy and dominate the victim through means including isolation, monitoring, financial...
- Cruelty by Husband or Relatives
- A criminal offence under Section 85 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023, covering wilful conduct by a husband or his relatives likely...
- Cycle of Violence
- Lenore Walker's 1979 model describing recurring domestic abuse as a three-phase pattern: tension building, an acute battering incident, and a reconciliation or...
- Dowry Death
- The unnatural death of a married woman within seven years of marriage, preceded by cruelty or harassment connected to a dowry demand,...
- Mandatory Reporting
- A statutory obligation in specified categories, most commonly child abuse and serious violent crime, that requires a health professional to report to...