Vulnerability, Childhood and the Law

• Main Author: Herring, Jonathan (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: SpringerBriefs in Law,
• Subjects: Human rights.; Childhood.; Adolescence.; Psychology.; Law-Philosophy.; Law.; Political science.; Well-being.; Children.; Human Rights.; Childhood, Adolescence and Society.; Law and Psychology.; Theories of Law, Philosophy of Law, Legal History.; Philosophy of Law.; Child Well-being.

This book will challenge the orthodox view that children cannot have the same rights as adults because they are particularly vulnerable. It will argue that we should treat adults and children in the same way as the child liberationists claim. However, the basis of that claim is not that children are...