1. Protecting children from violence: historical roots and emerging trends. p. 1.-- 2. Exposure to violence: who is most affected and why?. p. 13.-- 3. Protecting children in their homes: effective prevention programs and policies. p. 35.-- 4. Empirically-based violence prevention interventions. p. 57.-- 5. Identifying children potentially at risk for serious maladjustment due to peer victimization: a new model using receiver operating characteristics (ROC) analysis. p. 79.-- 6. Interviewing child victims: advances in the scientific understanding of child eyewitness memory. p. 105.-- 7. missing and abducted children. p. 129.-- 8. Looking both ways before crossing the information superhighway: issues of concern for minors in cyberspace. p. 167.-- 9. Public attitudes toward applying sex offender registration laws to juvenile offenders. p. 193.-- 10. mediating factors in the long-term outcome following childhood abuse: cognitive and other factors predicting personal distress, intimacy functioning, and resilience. p. 219.-- 11. Cognitive development and exposure to violence in children. p. 243.-- 12. Snakes, spiders, strangers: how the evolved fear of strangers may misdirect efforts to protect children from harm. p. 263.-- 13. International perspecitves on domestic violence. p. 291.-- 14. Protecting children from the violence of global health inequities: working beyond academic halls and clinic walls. p. 315.-- 15. Protecting children from violence: historical roots and emerging trends: conclusions. p. 337
