Jill Duerr Berrick serves as the Zellerbach Family Foundation Professor in the School of Social Welfare at U.C. Berkeley. Berrick's research focuses on the relationship of the state to vulnerable families, particularly those touched by the child welfare system. She has written or co-written 11 books on topics relating to family poverty, child maltreatment, and child welfare services and has written extensively for academic journals.

Berrick's research approach typically relies upon the voices of service system consumers to identify the impacts of social problems and social service solutions in family life. Her newest book, The Impossible Imperative: Navigating the Competing Principles of Child Protection examines child welfare professionals and the morally contentious and intellectually demanding choices they regularly face in their work with children and families.

Neil Gilbert is Chernin Professor of Social Welfare at U.C. Berkeley. He has served as a Senior Research Fellow at the United Nations Research Institute for Social Development and a Visiting Scholar at the International Social Security Association in Geneva. Gilbert was awarded two Senior Fulbright Research Fellowships to study European Social Policy at the London School of Economics, the National Institute of Social Work and the University of Stockholm. He has served as a visiting Professor at McGill University and Hamburg University. His publications include thirty-two books and over 130 articles that have appeared in The Wall Street Journal, The Public Interest, Society, Commentary, and leading academic journals.

Several of his books were translated into Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and Italian and widely reviewed in venues such as the New York Times, the New York Review of Books, The New Republic, the Wall Street Journal, and the Atlantic. Gilbert is chairman of the Board of Seneca Family of Agencies and a recipient of the University of Pittsburgh Bicentennial Medallion of Distinction.

• Table of Contents


• 1 Child Protection Systems Across the World


• Jill Duerr Berrick, Neil Gilbert and Marit Skivenes


• Section I - Institutionalized


• 2 Child Protection in Australia and New Zealand: An Overview of Systems


• Judith Cashmore and Nicola Taylor


• 3 The Austrian Child Welfare System: Moving Towards Professionalization and Participation


• Katrin Kriz, Jenny Krutzinna and Peter Pantucek-Eisenbacher


• 4 Child Protection in Belgium: An Overview of the Systems


• Johan Vanderfaeillie, Erik Van Dooren and Jessica Segers


• 5 Child Welfare in Canada


• Nico Trocmé, Melanie Doucet, Barbara Fallon, Jennifer Nutton, and Tonino Esposito


• 6 The Child Protection Systems in Denmark and Norway


• Anne-Dorthe Hestbæk, Marit Skivenes, Asgeir Falch-Eriksen, Idamarie Leth Svendsen and Elisabeth Backe-Hansen


• 7 Child Welfare and Child Protection Services in England


• June Thoburn


• 8 Child Protection in Finland and Sweden


• Ingrid Höjer and Tarja Pösö


• 9 Child Protection and Welfare in France


• Flora Bolter


• 10 Child Protection and Welfare in Germany


• Kay Biesel and Heinz Kindler


• 11 Child Protection and Welfare on the Island of Ireland: Irish Issues, Global Relevance


• Kenneth Burns, John Devaney, Stephanie Holt and Gerry Marshall


• 12 Child Protection in Israel


• Daphna Gross-Manos, Eran Melkman and Aya Almog-Zaken


• 13 Child Protection in Mediterranean Countries: Italy and Greece


• Teresa Bertotti, Roberta T. Di Rosa, Charis Asimopoulos


• 14 A New Era for Child Protection in Japan


• Shoko Tokunaga, Mitsuru Fukui, Misa Saigo and Saki Nagano


• 15 The Child Protection System in the Netherlands: Characteristics, Trends, and Evidence


• Erik J. Knorth, Helen Bouma, Hans Grietens and Mónica López López


• 16 The Development of the Korean Child Protection System: Cultural Influences, Unique Challenges, and Policy Strategies


• Yiyoon Chung and TJ Lah


• 17 Child Protection Systems in Spain


• Sagrario Segado


• 18 Child Protection and Children's Services in Switzerland


• Stefan Schnurr


• 19 Child Protection in the United States


• Jennifer Lawson and Jill Duerr Berrick


• Section II - Emerging


• 20 The Chilean Child Protection System


• Carolina Muñoz-Guzman, Miguel Cillero Bruñol, Mariana Bernasconi


• 21 Czech Child Protection after 1989: Between Socialist Legacy and the European Call for Democratic Legitimacy


• Victoria Shmidt


• 22 Child Protection Systems in Estonia and Latvia


• Merle Linno and Judit Strömpl


• 23 Child Protection in Lithuania


• Ilona Tamutiene, Dalija Snieskiene


• 24 Child Protection in Poland


• Violetta Tanas


• 25 Child Protection in Portugal


• Jorge Ferreira


• 26 Child Protection System in the Slovak Republic


• Kvasnáková Lenka, Balogová Beáta


• 27 Child Protection in South Africa


• Julia Sloth-Nielsen


• 28 Child Protection System in Uruguay


• María del Luján González Tornaría and Delfina Miller


• Section III - Nascent


• 29 Building the Child Protection System in Argentina


• Carla Villata and Valeria Lobet


• 30 Child Protection Systems in Brazil


• Diene Monique Carlos, Ailton de Souza Aragão, Eliana Mendes de Souza Teixeira Roque, Lygie Maria Pereira da Silva


• 31 Child Protection Policy and Service in China


• Fang Zhao and Yanfeng Xu


• 32 Colombian Child Protection System


• María Cristina Torrado P. and Ernesto Duran Strauch


• 33 Ecuador: Child Protection Systems


• Verónica Jiménez Borja, Micaela Jiménez Borja, and Teresa Borja Álvarez


• 34 Child Protection in Egypt


• Hmoud S. Olimat and Amal A. ElGama


• 35 Child Protection Systems in Ghana


• Mavis Dako-Gyeke, Abigail Adubea Mills, and Doris Akyere Boateng


• 36 Child Protection System in India: An Overview


• Sanjai Bhatt and Subhashree Sanyal


• 37 The Social Construction and Development of an Integrated Child Protection System: In Search of Core Templates in a Diversified and Decentralized Indonesia


• Erna Dinata


• 38 Child Protection in Iran


• Marzieh Takaffoli, Meroe Vameghi, Maliheh Arshi, Leila Ostadhashemi


• 39 Child Protection in Lebanon


• Hoda Rizk


• 40 Children at Risk in Mexico: Issues, Policies, and Interventions


• Martha Frías Armenta


• 41 Child Protection System in Nigeria


• Chimezie Elekwachi


• 42 Protecting Children in the Philippines: A System Focused Overview of Policy and Practice


• Steven Roche and Florence Flores-Pasos


• 43 Reforming Russia's Child Protection System: From Residential to Family Care


• Meri Kulmala, Maija Jäppinen and Zhanna Chernova


• 44 Child Protection Systems in Uganda


• Deogratias Yiga


• 45 Making Child Protection Systems Work for Children: Lessons from Zimbabwe


• Mildred T. Mushunje


• Conclusion


• 46 Child Protection Systems: A Global Typology


• Jill Duerr Berrick, Neil Gilbert and Marit Skivenes