TY - JOUR PY - 2020// TI - Data on children involved and the social costs related to the phenomenon of maltreatment and ill-treatment towards children in Italy JO - Open journal of social sciences A1 - Savarese, Giulia A1 - Carpinelli, Luna A1 - Villani, Rosa Angela A1 - D'Elia, Daniela A1 - Romei, Monica SP - e98668 EP - e98668 VL - 8 IS - 3 N2 - This short paper refers to the social cost of child maltreatment in Italy. The cost of child violence is about 13.056 billion Euros per year, equivalent to 0.84% of National GDP. Direct costs amount to 338.6 million Euros, while indirect costs amount to 12.7 billion Euros. The new cases of maltreatment cost 910 million Euros each year. The paper discusses the data on cases of child violence and the related social costs in Italy, comparing its with International ones.
Language: en
LA - en SN - 2327-5952 UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.4236/jss.2020.83001 ID - ref1 ER -