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1 online resource |
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Routledge revivals |
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Issues in law and society |
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Routledge revivals.
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Issues in law and society.
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| Contents |
Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Notes on Contributors; 1 Child Abuse: The Search for a Solution; 2 Child Protection Law in Australia; 3 Child Abuse: The Bulgarian Case; 4 Maltreatment of Children in Chile; 5 Abused and Neglected Children in the Republic of Croatia; 6 The Definition of, and Legal and Management Responses to, the Problem of Child Abuse in England and Wales; 7 Dealing with the Problems of Sexual Abuse of Children in Finland; 8 Child Abuse and the Law in the Federal Republic of Germany: Current Situation and Prospects; 9 Child Abuse in Hungary |
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10 Taking Stock of a Revolution: Child Abuse and the Law in Israel, 1989-9711 Child Abuse in Japan: The Current Situation and Proposed Legal Changes; 12 Child Abuse and Neglect: A Malaysian Perspective; 13 Protecting, Reporting and Supporting: Child Abuse and the Assessment of Risks in the Netherlands; 14 Child Abuse in New Zealand; 15 Child Abuse: The Nigerian Perspective; 16 'Let Him Take His Wife': Marriage, Protection and Exploitation of Girls in Zimbabwe; Index |
| Summary |
Published in 2000. Child abuse is endemic, it comes in many forms and its categories are not closed. This book looks at responses to aspects of child abuse in all five continents. The definitions are different, though not all that different, the legal emphases vary and so do management techniques. This book reveals the importance of culture and structure in the commitment to eradicate the problem |
| Notes |
Originally published: Brookfield, Vermont : Ashgate, ©2000 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Michael Freeman is Professor Emeritus of English Law at University College, London, Fellow of the British Academy, and a Barrister of Gray's Inn. He is the Founding Editor of The International Journal of Children's Rights and the author of The Rights and Wrongs of Children (1983), The Moral Status of Children (1997), and Children, their Families and the Law(1992) . He was the Editor of Current Legal Problems for many years and a Founding Editor of The International Journal of Law in Context. He has been selected to give the 2015 Hamlyn Lectures on Children's Rights. He also writes on medical issues and on legal theory; the 9th edition of his Introduction to Jurisprudence was published in 2014 |
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Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed June 10, 2019) |
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Child abuse.
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Child abuse -- Law and legislation.
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Child abuse -- Cross-cultural studies.
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Child welfare.
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Child Abuse
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Security.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Services & Welfare.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General.
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Child abuse
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Child abuse -- Law and legislation
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Child welfare
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| Genre/Form |
Cross-cultural studies
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Freeman, Michael D. A., editor.
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| ISBN |
9780429451218 |
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0429451210 |
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9780429836039 |
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0429836031 |
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9780429836022 |
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0429836023 |
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9780429836015 |
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0429836015 |
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