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Child Witnesses and the Common Law
Considering the child witness over a century of case law, legislation, psychological research and media reporting requires a preliminary overview of...
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Covid-19 and child criminal exploitation in the UK: implications of the pandemic for county lines
In March 2020, the UK was placed in lockdown following the spread of the Covid-19 virus. Just as legitimate workplaces made changes to enable their...
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Truth, Trauma and Healing: Stories of Aboriginal Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse in Out-of-Home Care
This chapter highlights the importance of the voices and expertise belonging to Aboriginal survivors of institutional child sexual abuse (CSA). It...
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Map** Paths to Family Justice: Resolving Family Disputes Involving Children in Neoliberal Times
Using interviews with various families and mediators/lawyers involved in three types of out-of-court procedures in England and Wales, this...
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Children’s Participation and Perspectives in Family Disputes
From a sociological perspective, this chapter discusses how agency interventions in the lives of children involved in family disputes, could become...
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Adoption’s ‘Golden Age’: From Orphan Rescue to the Rights of the Child
Various mythologies have attached to the ‘adoptionAdoption industrial complex’ which established itself in the late nineteenth century, both within...
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Introduction
This edited text explores, analyses and evaluates ‘Child First’—a guiding principle and strategy for understanding children who offend and for...
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From Childhood System Contact to Adult Criminal Conviction: Investigating Intersectional Inequalities using Queensland Administrative Data
It is well known that youth justice contact is associated with criminal conviction in adulthood. What is less well understood is whether ‘cross-over’...
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Introduction: Matching Legal Proceedings to Problems in Custody Disputes
The introductory chapter presents the aim, outline, and content of the anthology. First, it describes the dilemmas and challenges that arise in...
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Worsening Child Outcomes? Caregiver Imprisonment and Its Impact on Child Poverty, Health, Well-being and Education in Uganda
Increasingly, research investigates how the imprisonment of those with child care responsibilities may affect children and their outcomes. However,...
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Challenges When Family Conflicts Meet the Law—A Proactive Approach
The final contributing chapter assumes that the effectiveness of addressing a social problem depends, in part, on the quality and appropriateness of...
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Child protection versus teacher protection: a legal review of the settlement of school corporal punishment in Indonesia
The education sphere nowadays faces the issue of corporal punishment, which is considered a detrimental school discipline that has negative impacts...
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Impact of COVID-19 on Florida family dependency drug courts
BackgroundTo promote parent-child reunification, family dependency drug courts (FDDCs) facilitate substance use disorder treatment for people whose...
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‘Preserving What for Whom?’ Female Victim/Survivor Perspectives on the Silence Behind Child Sexual Abuse in Britain’s South Asian Communities
Family and community relations matter to individuals—they are what makes us feel wanted and needed and what preoccupy much of our time, attention and...
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Global Child and Youth Imprisonment: Histories, Human Rights Standards, Distributions, Impacts, Outcomes and Replacements
This chapter begins by reviewing the historical origins of ‘specialist’ forms of child and youth imprisonment before turning attention to the...
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Child Victim Services in the Time of COVID-19: New Challenges and Innovative Solutions
The impact of COVID-19 has been felt by all facets of the criminal justice system and victim services agencies. The ability to monitor and report...
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Exploring Attitudes Towards Problematic Populations
This chapter outlines what is known about punitiveness towards the three different groups of rule-breakers. Punitiveness towards lawbreakers suggests...
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Challenging Punitive Youth Justice
This chapter explores an unresolved tension within youth justice in England and Wales which recent attempts to introduce Child First principles to...
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Maternal Mimesis: The Impact of Intersectional Abuse on African-Caribbean British Maternal Responses to ‘Tellings’ of Child Sexual Abuse by Daughters
This chapter examines the disclosures or ‘tellings’ (Summit, 1983) of child sexual abuse (CSA) experiences by seven African-Caribbean British...
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A Comparative Review of the Incorporation of African traditional justice processes in Restorative Child Justice Systems in Uganda, Lesotho and Eswatini
This chapter presents a comparative assessment of Uganda, Lesotho and Eswatini. These countries all have common law adversarial justice systems, but...