Child Maltreatment and the Law Returning to First Principles /

• Κύριος συγγραφέας: Levesque, Roger J. R. (Συγγραφέας)
• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: New York, NY : Springer New York, 2008.
• Θέματα: Psychology.; Education.; Law.; Criminology.; Social work.; Child psychology.; School psychology.; Child and School Psychology.; Law and Psychology.; Law, general.; Criminology & Criminal Justice.; Social Work.; Education, general.

Dramatic cases of child abuse and neglect are featured with tragic regularity in the news. The stories vividly demonstrate both the urgent need for improved child protection services and the unwieldiness and ineffectiveness of the systems charged with the task. To complicate matters further, the ori...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• Introduction: The Nature and Limits of Child Maltreatment Law
• The Increasingly Curious Response to Children's Harms
• The Legal Regulation of Family Life
• Families, Child Welfare, and the Constitution
• Suitable Families and Parents in Law
• Legal Responses to Child Maltreatment
• Defining Maltreatment and Permitting Startlingly Broad State Intervention
• Removing Children From Maltreating Families
• Enlisting Criminal Justice Systems in Child Protection
• Shifting Rules Regulating the Role of Expertise
• Returning to Child Welfare Law's Foundations
• Rethinking Laws Regulating Child Protection.