Law and Child Development
By: Buss, Emily (Edited by), Maclean, Mavis (Edited by).
Ashgate Publishing Group. Published: 04/01/2010. Audience Guide: Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly, Professional & Vocational.
Hardback. Sourced from U.S.A.
This volume asks what legal and socio legal scholarship can contribute to understanding the role of law in the care and development of children. The editors have selected key articles ranging from theoretical analysis to empirical data based research that address the law's approach in the United States and the United Kingdom to resolving parenting disputes after separation, protecting children from abuse and neglect, and affording children procedural protections in the juvenile justice system. Their introduction to these important and often distressing areas of the law confirms the importance of understanding how law works in practice, and reaffirms that law itself remains responsible for articulating and protecting society's values. Item Details
ISBN10/13: 0754628116/9780754628118
TITLE: Law and Child Development, The
CONTRIBUTORS: Buss, Emily (Edited by), Maclean, Mavis (Edited by)
IMPRINT: Ashgate Publishing Limited
PUBLISHER: Ashgate Publishing Group
FORMAT: Hardback
PUBLICATION DATE: 04/01/2010
SUBJECT: Society, Welfare
DIMENSIONS (Width x Height): 169mm x 244mm
PAGES: 516
AUDIENCE GUIDE: Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly, Professional & Vocational
CONTENTS: Introduction; Part I Overarching Issues: The legal construction of adolescence, Elizabeth S. Scott; Allocating developmental control among parent, child and the state, Emily Buss; The best interests of the child and children's wishes: the role of dynamic self determination, J. Eekelaar; The paramountcy principle: consensus or construct, H. Reece.; Part II Private Law Issues: Separation and Contact: What matters? What does not? 5 perspectives on the association between marital transitions and children's adjustment, Hetherington et al; A critical assessment of child custody evaluations, limited science, and a flawed system, Robert Emery et al; The uses of social science data in legal policymaking: custody determination at divorce, Martha L. Fineman and Anne Opie; Why can't they agree? The underlying complexity of contact and residency disputes, C. Smart and V. May; 5 different patterns of post separation parenting, B. Smyth; Child-custody adjudication: judicial functions in the face of indeterminacy, Robert H. Mnookin.; Part III Public Law Issues: Child, Family and the State: 'Are you my mother?': conceptualizing children's identity rights in transracial adoptions, Barbara Bennett Woodhouse; Uncertain evidence and risk taking in child protection cases, M. Hayes; Learning from child protection policy in the USA, K. Keenan; Taking Gault seriously: toward a new juvenile court, Gary B. Melton; Legal socialization of children and adolescents, Jeffrey Fagan and Tom R. Tyler; Index.
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