Children's Rights (The International Library of Essays on Rights)
The idea of children having rights dates to the 1970s, to the time when Hillary Rodham commented that such rights were a slogan in search of a definition. These essays explore how far the rights of children have advanced over 30 years.
Missing, Abducted, and After
by Sharon W. Cooper, Patty Wetterling, Daniel Broughton, and Mary G. Leary
"Missing, Abducted, and After" will incorporate each of the major perspectives on this issue including law enforcement, legal, social services, mental health, and experiential. It will cover not only domestic cases and practices, but also international concerns, and will maintain a focus on prevention strategies. "Missing, Abducted, and After" is sure to become an invaluable tool for legal, medical, and social services professionals and will also be useful for lawmakers, educators, and parents.
Why does our society think it is okay to hit children? Almost everyone thinks it is wrong to abuse a child. But many parents and teachers believe it is okay to spank children, rap their knuckles, slap their faces, pull their hair and yank their arms, as long as the punishment does not result in serious injury or death, and is intended to improve a child's behaviour. Susan M. Turner explores the historical, psychological, sociological and legal foundations of this belief from a philosophical per...
Medical, Legal, and Social Science Aspects of Child Sexual Exploitation
by Sharon Cooper
At the end of the nineteenth century, Pittsburgh was leading the nation in glass production, and glass bottle plants in particular relied heavily on adolescent (and younger) males for their manufacturing process. These 'glass house boys' worked both day and night, as plants ran around the clock to meet production demands and remain price competitive with their newly-automated rivals. Boys performed menial tasks, received low wages, and had little to say on their own behalf. By the turn of the ce...
This clearly articulated statement offers a hopeful and workable approach to conflict-that eternally beleaguering human situation. John Paul Lederach is internationally recognized for his breakthrough thinking and action related to conflict on all levels-person-to-person, factions within communities, warring nations. He explores why "conflict transformation" is more appropriate than "conflict resolution" or "management." But he refuses to be drawn into impractical idealism. Conflict Transforma...
Unaccompanied child asylum seekers are amongst the world's most vulnerable populations and their numbers are increasing. The intersection of their age, their seeking asylum, and separation from their parents creates a specific and acute triple burden of vulnerability. Their precariousness has long been recognised in international human rights law. Yet human rights-based responses have been subordinated to progressive global securitisation of irregular migration through interception, interdiction...
Violence in families and intimate relationships affects a significant proportion of the population-from very young children to the elderly-with far-reaching and often devastating consequences. Cruel but Not Unusual draws on the expertise of scholars and practitioners to present readers with the latest research and thinking about the history, conditions, and impact of violence in these contexts. For this new edition, chapters have been updated to reflect changes in data and legislation. New chapt...
Perspectiva De geNero En El Trabajo Infantil
by Maria Eugenia Labrunee and Eliana Aspiazu
Hidden Heads of Households (Teaching Culture: UTP Ethnographies for the Classroom)
by Mary Lorena Kenny
In the cities of Northeast Brazil where 50 per cent of the population lives in poverty, children play a key role in the local economy in their households, in formal jobs, and in the thriving informal sector (washing cars, shining shoes, scavenging for recyclables, etc.). Why children migrate to the city, how they negotiate their existence, and why they stay are just some of the questions addressed in this fascinating study. Mary Kenny spent close to 15 years in the urban areas of Northeast Brazi...
Choosing the Future for American Juvenile Justice (Youth, Crime, and Justice)
This is a hopeful but complicated era for those with ambitions to reform the juvenile courts and youth-serving public institutions in the United States. As advocates plea for major reforms, many fear the public backlash in making dramatic changes. Choosing the Future for American Juvenile Justice provides a look at the recent trends in juvenile justice as well as suggestions for reforms and policy changes in the future. Should youth be treated as adults when they break the law? How can youth be...
Child Support
There has been a revolution in the child support law in the last half-century, fueled by escalating numbers of divorces and children born to unmarried parents. This collection examines the state of child support policy at the close of the 20th century.'