This book considers how human rights law can help define what could and should be done to protect children from sexual maltreatment.

The book charts broad proposals to guide the development of sociolegal responses to changing social environments related to the privacy of adolescents and challenges jurisprudential analyses claiming that developmental sciences do not offer ...

The book is particularly useful for courses relating to child welfare law or child abuse and neglect. ______________________________________________________________________ "Professor Levesque has written the book on child maltreatment that ...

The Encyclopedia of Adolescence breaks new ground as an important central resource for the study of adolescence.

This is the first attempt to integrate research on the place of religion in adolescent development today and to consider the impact of it on law and social policy making.

Topics featured in this text include: The role of parents and family systems in conceptualizing adolescents’ rights. The complexities of providing health care to adolescents.

Psychological science now reveals much about the law's response to crime. This is the first text to bridge both fields as it presents psychological research and theory relevant to each phase of criminal justice processes.

The Science and Law of School Segregation and Diversity examines the sources of the disconnect between scientific findings on school segregation and how the U.S. legal system addresses it; evaluates these sources' empirical and legal ...

This volume shows that despite the shift to a focus on neutrality, the Court can and should effectively foster values supporting equality, especially among youth.

Together, the materials provide a firm foundation for understanding key social science findings, policy directions, and practices in child maltreatment law. "This is a successful casebook project that should appeal to a wide audience.