Umar Farooq

BSc. Management and Economics

198386

Research Protocol:
The topic for this academic paper is Child abuse in India and Pakistan. This paper
will explain about child abuse, what are its different forms and about how we can
recognize its occurrence among children. Then the paper will talk about findings on
child abuse in India and Pakistan. The paper will also talk about the impact of child
abuse on the economy. Apart from this the paper will explain about consequences of
child abuse and some strategies to stop it.
In order to collect required information I will go through from two online books on
library website, one is Handbook of child maltreatment and the other one is
Evidence based approaches for the treatment of maltreated children. The reason why
I have selected these books are because it is published in 2014 and I can find relevant
information.
Handbook of child maltreatment:

Contemporary issues in research and policy 2

Series editors:
o Jill E. Korbin, PHD. Director Schubert center for child studies, Professor
of anthropology, office of the dean Case Western Reserve University,
Cleveland USA.
o Richard D Krugman, MD. Distinguished professor of pediatrics and
Dean University of Colorado school of medicine.

Assistant editor:
o Sarah Miller-Fellows. Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland USA.

Publisher: Springer, 2014

Evidence-based approaches for the treatment of maltreated children:

Contemporary issues in research and policy 3

Editors:

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BSc. Management and Economics
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o Susan Timmer, Department of pediatrics, CAARE center, Sacramento,

CA, USA.
o Anthony

Urquiza,

Department

of

Pediatrics,

CAARE

center,

Sacramento, CA, USA.

Publisher: Springer, 2014

To support my paper I will consult different articles which are available online. I will
look into these articles:
1. Sexual abuse and exploitation of boys in South Asia and Child protection
from violence, exploitation and abuse published by UNICEF
Sexual abuse and exploitation of boys in South Asia: John Frederick, Published
in 2010, UNICEF, ISSN: 1014-7837
Child protection from violence, exploitation and abuse: A statistical snapshot,
UNICEF, June 2011.
(From these articles I will collect relevant data regarding Pakistan and India)
2. Study on child abuse 2007 published by Ministry of women and child
development, Government of India. Report writers Dr. Loveleen Kacker, IAS,
Srinvas Varadan, Pravesh Kumar, Dr. Nadeem Mohsin, Anu dixit. This report
was sponsored by UNICEF, Save the children and PRAYAS juvenile aids center.
(I will collect information about child abuse in India from this article)
3. Child abuse and neglect by parents and other caregivers and Child abuse and
neglect published by World health organization (WHO)
(I will collect information about consequences of child abuse and different forms
of it)
4. Definition of child abuse and neglect and Preventing child abuse and
neglect published in July 2013, by children welfare information gateway,
Washington, DC, USA.
(This article will help me out in defining child abuse and some prevention
strategies)

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BSc. Management and Economics
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5. Mapping of psychological support for girls and boys affected by child abuse
published in 2003 by Save the children, Sweden, Denmark and Dhaka.
(I will collect relevant information about Pakistan and India from this article)
6. Violence against children published by SPARC (society for the protection of
the rights of the child). SPARC have head offices in Lahore, Islamabad, Quetta,
Peshawar, Karachi and Hyderabad.
(This article is about child abuse in Pakistan, I will collect relevant information
from this article)
7. The nature of economic costs from child abuse and neglect in New Zealand.
Infometrics Ltd, August 2008. ECC discussion paper number 1 june,2010.
The economics cost and consequences of child abuse in Canada. Katherine
Mckenna, Phd, prinicipal investigator center for womens studies and feminist
research, The University of Western Ontario. Audra Bowlus, PHD, Department
of economics, The University of Western Ontario. Tanis Day, Phd, team
member, economics costing consultant. David Wright, MD, team member,
Program for traumatic stress recovery Homewood Health Centre.
(From these two articles I will collect information from economic point of view)