Child maltreatment and the law : returning to first principles

Child maltreatment and the law : returning to first principles

Law of the United Kingdom and Ireland > England and Wales > KD7974

Edition Details

• Creator or Attribution (Responsibility): Roger J. R. Levesque
• Language: English
• Jurisdiction(s): New York (State)
• Publication Information: New York : Springer, ©2008
• Publication Type (Medium): Electronic books
• Material: Document, Internet resource
• Type: Internet Resource, Computer File
• Permalink: https://books.lawi.org.uk/child-maltreatment-and-the-law-returning-to-first-principles/ (Stable identifier)

Additional Format

Print version: Levesque, Roger J.R. Child maltreatment and the law. New York: Springer, ©2008 (DLC) 2008931182 (OCoLC)228572735

Short Description

1 online resource (VIII, 217 pages)

Purpose and Intended Audience

Useful for students learning an area of law, Child maltreatment and the law : returning to first principles is also useful for lawyers seeking to apply the law to issues arising in practice.

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Bibliographic information

• Publisher: Springer
• Responsable Person: Roger J.R. Levesque.
• Publication Date: 2008
• Copyright Date: 2008
• Location: New York
• Country/State: New York (State)
• Number of Editions: 10 editions
• First edition Date: 2008
• Last edition Date: 2008
• Languages: English
• Library of Congress Code: KD7974
• Dewey Code: 344.730327044
• ISBN: 9780387799186 0387799184
• OCLC: 422598983

Main Contents

The increasingly curious response to children’s harms
Families, child welfare, and the Constitution
Suitable families and parents in law
Defining maltreatment and permitting startingly broad state intervention
Removing children from maltreating families
Enlisting criminal justice systems in child protection
Shifting rules regulating the role of expertise
Rethinking laws regulating child protection
Appendix A. Defining child maltreatment
Appendix B. Removing children from their families
Appendix C. Criminal justice system responses
Appendix D. Expert and scientific evidence. The increasing curious response to children’s harms
The legal regulation of family life
Legal responses to child maltreatment
Returning to child welfare law’s foundations
Appendices.

Structured Subjects (Headings):

• Child abuse–Law and legislation
• Child abuse–Law and legislation–United States
• Criminology
• Developmental psychology
• England
• Social service
• United States
• Wales

Unstructured Subjects (Headings):

• Child abuse–Law and legislation
• United States