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Author Levesque, Roger J. R.

Title Child maltreatment and the law : returning to first principles / Roger J.R. Levesque.

Publication Info. New York, N.Y. : Springer, [2008]
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 University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location  344.7303 L662C    Check Shelf
Description viii, 217 pages ; 25 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-208) and index.
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.
System Details Mode of online access : World Wide Web.
Subject Child abuse -- Law and legislation -- United States.
Dysfunctional families -- Law and legislation -- United States.
Other Form: Print version: Levesque, Roger J. R. Child maltreatment and the law. New York : Springer, c2008 9780387799179 (DLC) 2008931182 (OCoLC)228572735
ISBN 9780387799179 hardbound
0387799176 hardbound
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