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Author Levesque, Roger J. R

Title Child maltreatment and the law : returning to first principles / Roger J.R. Levesque
Published New York : Springer, ©2008

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 217 pages)
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
Summary Analyzes the role legal systems play in family life and traces evolving legal concepts as they apply to child protection. This book helps readers: navigate the various layers of legal regulation - federal and state - involved in child protection and family life
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-208) and index
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In Springer eBooks
Subject Child abuse -- Law and legislation -- United States
Developmental psychology.
Law -- Psychological aspects.
Criminology.
Social service.
criminology.
LAW -- Administrative Law & Regulatory Practice.
Child abuse -- Law and legislation
United States
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780387799186
0387799184