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Title: CHILD ABUSE
LAW AND POLICY ACROSS BOUNDARIES
By: Laura C.H. Hoyano, Caroline Keenan
Format: Hardback

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ISBN 10: 019829946X
ISBN 13: 9780198299462
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Publisher: OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
Pub. date: 1 June, 2006
Pages: 1080
Description: This book considers the law relating to child abuse across the legal disciplines of family, criminal, tort and evidence law, as well as law and practice relating to the investigation of complaints of child abuse. It analyses the strengths and weaknesses of the response of each legal framework to allegations of child abuse, and places this analysis in the context of innovative legal policies and practices of other similar jurisdictions (most notably Canada, the UnitedStates, Australia and New Zealand). The book is unique in its analysis of such a wide range of legal frameworks within their social and political context.
Synopsis: Whilst there may be universal agreement that 'something must be done' about child abuse, there is much less clarity about what qualifies as child abuse and what should be done about it. Policy makers often invoke the law at times of crisis which are seen to demand a societal response. The presence of legislation on the statute book or the creation of rules and protocols which professionals must follow is one socially acceptable sign that the problem has been recognised and that an effective response has been implemented. In the last two decades of the twentieth century, the numerous controversies about the response of public agencies and the courts to allegations of child abuse, as well as campaigns to reform the treatment of child witnesses in adversarial trial systems, provided the impetus for legal reform in both criminal and civil proceedings in England and Wales. These legal initiatives were ad hoc responses to specific problems, and not part of a coherent and integrated programme of reform across the criminal and civil systems.Legislators and the courts in family, criminal, and tort proceedings have constructed different liability and evidential rules in parallel rather than in tandem with the other courts adjudicating the same issues, and often regarding the same child. Similarly reforms in other common law jurisdictions have often been only partially understood by lawmakers in England and Wales. This book looks across the legal and geographical boundaries within which the legal discussion of child abuse is usually confined. It considers the themes and policy considerations driving each form of legal response to the problem of child abuse. It also provides a detailed discussion of the law governing the trial of allegations of child abuse in the key areas of family, criminal and tort law in English law, and compares this with the approaches in other common law jurisdictions using the adversarial mode of trial, in particular in Canada, the United States, New Zealand and Australia. In its breadth and depth, Child Abuse Law and Policy Across Boundaries marks a significant contribution to the rapidly evolving field of child protection law.
Publication: UK
Imprint: Oxford University Press
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