Child Maltreatment and the Law : Returning to First Principles - Levesque, Roger J.R.; SpringerLink (Online service) (New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Springer, 2008)
Introduction: The Nature and Limits of Child Maltreatment Law -- The Increasingly Curious Response to Children's Harms -- The Legal Regulation of Family Life -- Families, Child Welfare, and the Constitution -- Suitable Families and Parents in Law -- Legal Responses to Child Maltreatment -- Defining Maltreatment and Permitting Startlingly Broad State Intervention -- Removing Children From Maltreating Families -- Enlisting Criminal Justice Systems in Child Protection -- Shifting Rules Regulating the Role of Expertise -- Returning to Child Welfare Law's Foundations -- Rethinking Laws Regulating Child Protection.
Keywords: Child psychology; School psychology; Psychology; Law; Criminology; Social work; Education; Child and School Psychology; Law and Psychology; Law, general; Criminology and Criminal Justice, general; Social Work; Education, general