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• Paperback: 650 pages
• Publisher: Clarity Press; 2nd edition (June 15, 2006)
  ISBN: 0932863477

Book Description
Legal and political rights-based analysis of how the US legal system affects American children. It examines the barriers to childsensitive public policy, and the true legal status of children with regard to poverty, education, health, special needs, child care, child abuse, juvenile crime and detention, reproductive rights, custody and civil liberties. Describing over 190 leading cases, and including probing commentaries and recent statistics, Child Rights & Remedies is a unique tool for anyone concerned about the wellbeing of the nation's children.

About the Author
Robert C. Fellmeth is Executive Director of the Children's Advocacy Institute, and holds the Price Chair in Public Interest Law at the U. of San Diego. He is chair of many foundations serving children's interests. Author of 14 books and 25 appellate advocacy cases, he is a graduate of Stanford (AB) and Harvard (JD).

• Hardcover: 378 pages
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press (April 17, 2006)
  ISBN: 0521862248

Book Description
The book presents the first sustained theoretical analysis of what rights children should possess in connection with state decision making about their personal relationships which the state does in numerous aspects of family law, including paternity, adoption, custody and visitation, termination of parental rights, and grandparent visitation. It examines the nature and normative foundation of adults' rights in connection with relationships among themselves and then assesses the extent to which the moral principles underlying adults' rights apply also to children. It concludes that the law should ascribe to children rights equivalent (though not identical) to those which adults enjoy, and this would require substantial changes in the way the legal system treats children, including a reformation of the rules for establishing legal parent-child relationships at birth and of the rules for deciding whether to end a parent-child relationship.

About the Author
James G. Dwyer received his JD degree from Yale Law School and a PhD in philosophy from Stanford University. He taught at the University of Wyoming School of Law and Chicago-Kent School of Law. He has worked as an attorney in law firms in Washington, DC and as a law guardian representing children in family court in upstate New York. He has published several articles and book chapters on children's rights in law journals such as The California Law Review and the North Carolina Law Review. He has written two books - Religious Schools v. Children's Rights and Vouchers Within Reason: A Child-Centered Approach to Education Reform.

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• Hardcover: 255 pages
• Publisher: Edwin Mellen Press (September 30, 2005);
  ISBN: 0773460497
  

• Paperback: 302 pages
• Publisher: Haworth Press; ISBN: 0789023512; (December 1, 2004)

Book Description
The large-system perspective in this book uses the concentric circle model, the rational legal model of legal and court action, and the ritualized process model to examine child welfare practice. Learn why terms such as "child abuse" and "neglect" have become social constructions that vary depending on the values of social workers, judges, attorneys, agencies, and communities. Child Welfare in the Legal Setting: A Critical and Interpretive Perspective examines the standardization of the organizational activities of child welfare systems and how this limits professionals' ability to accurately recognize unique problems and intervene in the most beneficial manner.

Child Welfare in the Legal Setting also provides controversial opinions on emerging issues including: family investigations sanction for Child Protective Services intervention the legal setting as a host environment the function of the child welfare system rationalization of child welfare intervention "trained incapacity" of social workers Title IVE programs the court system Child Welfare in the Legal Setting: A Critical and Interpretive Perspective identifies vital issues by analyzing the ethical and moral foundations of the child welfare system. This insightful book also takes a close look at how practitioners inadvertently devalue their clients by using language that creates stigmatized social categories such as "victim" and "convicted felon." Supervisors, managers, social workers and child welfare practitioners will benefit from this information. The vignettes that supplement the narrative also make the book an important resource in any child welfare course.

• Hardcover: 320 pages
• Publisher: Academic Press; ISBN: 0121631052; (October 7, 2004)

Book Description
The book provides a history of child exploitation cases and studies, outlining the roles of technology in this type of crime and the evidence they can contain, and documenting new research performed by the authors. It details how successful undercover Internet operations are conducted, how the associated evidence is collected, and how to use the evidence to locate and apprehend the offender. The heart of this work is a legal section, detailing all of the legal issues that arise in Internet child exploitation cases. A forensic examination section presents evidentiary issues from a technical perspective and describes how to conduct a forensic examination of digital evidence gathered in the investigative and probative stages of a child exploitation case.

Citations to related documents are provided for readers who want to learn more about certain issues. Actual case examples from computer assisted child exploitation cases are explored, at all times protecting the privacy of the victims while providing enough detail to educate the reader.

In addition to providing guidance on the technical and legal aspects of child exploitation investigations, this work identifies and analyzes trends in this type of crime and helps readers understand the similarities and differences between child predators who take to the Internet and predators who do not. Data from the thirty Internet Crimes Against Children (ICAC) Task Forces are compiled and reported to provide a deeper understanding of the types of cases, types of offenders and the level of danger they pose to themselves, their victims, and investigating officers. Also, sex offender data from the Offices of Attorneys General in the United States and similar offices in foreign countries are gathered to increase the study sample size, establish controls, and expand the scope of the research to outside of the United States.

• Hardcover: 1193 pages
• Publisher: Not Available; ISBN: 1587785218; 3rd edition
(September 1, 2004)

Book Description
Children in the Legal System focuses on what has been accomplished through legislation and judicial action since the Juvenile Justice Standards were published. General coverage of the juvenile justice system reflects the significant changes and new trends in this field.

• Hardcover: 628 pages
• Publisher: Oxford University Press; ISBN: 0195167554;
(July 1, 2004)

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• Hardcover: 200 pages
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press; ISBN: 0226309142;
(June 15, 2004)

Book Description
In the twenty-first-century world of juvenile justice policy and practice, nearly everyone agrees that one of the most pressing issues facing the nation's juvenile courts is their proper response to delinquent youths with mental disorders. Recent research indicates that about two-thirds of adolescent offenders in juvenile justice facilities meet the criteria for one or more mental disorders. What are the obligations of our juvenile justice system, then, as the caretaker for delinquent youth with such disabilities? How do issues of adolescent development create special challenges in determining the court's proper response to delinquents with special mental health needs? Thomas Grisso considers these questions while offering new information to assist the juvenile justice system in its responses to the needs of our children.

About the Author
Thomas Grisso, a clinical psychologist, is a professor of psychiatry and coordinator of the Law and Psychiatry Program at the University of Massachusetts Medical School. He is the author or co-editor of several books. Among these is Youth on Trial, also published by the University of Chicago Press.

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• Paperback: 800 pages
• Publisher: Oxford University Press; ISBN: 0199264031; 7th edition
(June 1, 2004)

Book Description
A Practical Approach to Family Law provides a clear picture of the law and practice relating to family proceedings in family proceedings courts, county courts, and the High Court. Both students and practitioners will find that the book helps them to deal confidently with most problems in the family law field. The seventh edition provides updated information on changes to public funding and pension sharing. New chapters explore the importance of mediation, the complexities of money laundering and the recently introduced maintenance calculation for child support. Case law developments on ancillary relief awards are discussed in detail, notably LAMBERT 2003 and the chapter on welfare benefits takes account of the new child tax and working tax credits. Reference is also made to the changes to the law on children contained in the Adoption and Children Act 2002, to be implemented 2004.

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• Paperback: 384 pages
• Publisher: Authors Choice Press; ISBN: 0595300782;
(October 30, 2003)

Book Description
With the narrative force of an epic novel and the urgency of first-rate investigative journalism, this important book delves into the daily workings and life-or-death decisions of a typical American family court system. It provides an intimate look at the lives of the parents and children whose fate it decides. A must for social workers and social work students, attorneys, judges, foster parents, law students, child advocates, teachers, journalists and anyone who cares about our nation's children.

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Award-winning journalists Hubner and Wolfson offer a path breaking investigation of the family court system where over two and a half million cases are decided every year.

• Paperback
• Publisher: West Group; ISBN: 0314144412; 4th edition
(September 1, 2003)

Book Description
Family law draws from constitutional law as well as from criminal law, conflict laws, and the laws of contracts, torts, property, inheritance, and even taxation. This comprehensive review inspects the creation of marriage relationships, spousal rights and obligations, parent and child relationships, marriage termination, and the economic consequences of divorce.

• Hardcover: 398 pages
• Publisher: Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers;
ISBN: 0306474867; (June, 2003)

Book Description
In recent decades, courts have turned increasingly to mental health professionals to assist them in evaluating the many factors that are relevant to laws concerning the care and protection of children and termination of parental rights. At the same time, the legal system has challenged the role of experts by setting high admissibility standards for scientific integrity and objectivity in forensic consultation and assessment practice. The purpose of this book is to lay the foundation for solid conceptual and methodological approaches for mental health professionals in offering effective responses to legal standards and to the needs of individuals regarding care and protection issues. Although termination of parental rights cases are the predominant focus of the book, attention also is given to consultation and evaluations for service planning purposes, the impact of maltreatment on children, diagnostic and treatment planning, issues of family process, amenability to treatment, potential family reunification, and post-termination pre-adoption questions.

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• Paperback: 608 pages
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press; ISBN: 040693407X;
2nd edition; (April 1, 2003)

Book Description
Provoked by the implementation of the Human Rights Act 1998, interest in the concept of children's rights has grown significantly since the first edition of this work was published. Now in its second edition, Children's Rights and the Developing Law explores the way developing law and policy in England and Wales are simultaneously promoting and undermining the rights of children. It reflects on the extent to which these developments take acco unt of children's interests, using a range of current research on children's needs as a template against which to assess their value. A critical approach is maintained throughout the work, particularly when assessing the extent to which the concept of children's rights is being developed by the domestic courts and the degree to which the UK is complying with its obligations to implement the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. Wide reaching in its scope, the work starts with the theoretical perspectives of the concept of children's rights and the extent to which international activity in the field of human rights can be utilised to inform domestic law.

• Hardcover: 432 pages
• Publisher: New York University Press; ISBN: 0814756824;
(February 1, 2003)

Book Description
In an era in which our conception of what constitutes a "normal" family has undergone remarkable changes, questions have arisen regarding the role of the state in "normalizing" families through public policy. In what ways should the law seek to facilitate, or oppose, parenting and child-rearing practices that depart from the "nuclear family" with two heterosexual parents? What should the state's stance be on single parent families, unwed motherhood, or the adoption of children by gay and lesbian parents? How should authority over child rearing and education be divided between parents and the state? And how should the state deal with the inequalities that arise from birthright citizenship?

Through critical essays divided into four parts-Adoption, Race, and Public Policy; Education and Parental Authority; Same Sex Families; and Birthright Citizenship-Child, Family, and State considers the philosophical, political, and legal dilemmas that surround these difficult and divisive questions. An invaluable resource in these contentious debates, Child, Family, and State illuminates the moral questions that lie before policymakers and citizens when contemplating the future of children and families.

About the Authors
Stephen Macedo is Laurence S. Rockefeller Professor of Politics and the University Center for Human Values, and Director of the University Center for Human Values, at Princeton University. Iris Marion Young is Professor of Political Science at the University of Chicago.

• Paperback: 426 pages
• Publisher: John Wiley & Sons; ISBN: 047149173X;
(October 18, 2002)

Book Description
Children's Testimony: A Handbook of Psychological Research and Forensic Practice is an accessible review of existing knowledge and recent developments in psychological research and forensic practice. An impressive collection of chapters from internationally renowned contributors, topics include children's memory, interviewing children, issues for child witnesses at court, and alternative perspectives on children's testimony.

About the Authors
Helen Westcott is a Lecturer in Psychology at The Open University, Milton Keynes, England, UK and is a Chartered Forensic Psychologist. She was formerly Research Officer with the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (NSPCC) in London, and has researched children's eyewitness testimony, and the investigative interviewing of children, for many years. Her other research interests include the abuse of disabled children, the abuse of children and young people in institutional care, and children's perceptions of social work intervention. Helen trains and present regularly on those topics, and to date has published over 30 articles and two books, Perspectives on the Memorandum: Policy, Practice and Research in Investigative Interviewing (1997, edited with Jocelyn Jones) and This Far and No Further: Towards Ending the Abuse of Disabled Children (1996, authored with Merry Cross). She is part of the consortium working with the British Government's Home Office to revise the Memorandum of Good Practice on Video Recorded Interviews with Child Witnesses for Criminal Proceedings (1992).

Graham Davies is a Professor of Psychology at Leicester University, England, UK. He is a Fellow of the British Psychological Society and a Chartered Forensic Psychologist. His major research interests lie in the eyewitness testimony of children and adults, on which he has published some 100 papers and five books. Graham is regularly asked to provide training and advice to professionals working with child witnesses. He is currently chairing the consortium working with the British Government's Home Office to revise the Memorandum of Good Practice on Video Recorded Interviews with Child Witnesses for Criminal Proceedings (1992). His recent research has included evaluations for the Home Office of the Live Link (1991), videotape facilities for child witnesses (1195), and training procedures for police officers involved in investigative interviewing of children (1997). Graham is the immediate past Chair of the Society of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition (SARMAC), and President-elect of the European Association of Psychology of Law.

Ray Bull is Professor of Psychology at the University of Portsmouth, England, UK. He has conducted research on witnessing since the late 1970s and on child witnesses since 1987. He regularly acts as an expert in legal cases involving child witness evidence. He has authored/co-authored over 100 papers in refereed research journals and chapters in 1991, Ray was asked by the British Government's Home Office (together with Professor Di Birch) to write the first draft of the Memorandum of Good Practice on Video Recorded Interviews with Child Witnesses for Criminal Proceedings (published in 1992). He is now part of the consortium working with the Home Office to revise the document, Ray is regularly asked by police forces and other organizations around the world to present on the investigative interviewing of children. In 1995, he was awarded a Higher Doctorate (Doctor of Science) in recognition of the quality and extent of his research.

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• Paperback: 600 pages
• Publisher: Clarity Pr; ISBN: 0932863361; (September 2002)

Book Description
Child Rights & Remedies provides a comprehensive rights-based analysis of how the U.S. legal system, in both its legal and political dimensions, is affecting American children. It examines the barriers to child-sensitive public policy, and the true legal status of children with regard to poverty, education, health, special needs, child care, child abuse, juvenile crime and detention, reproductive rights, custody and civil liberties. Backing up an extensive legal reference to over 190 leading cases with probing commentaries and the most recent statistics reflecting the socio-economic circumstances of children, Child Rights & Remedies serves as a unique tool for all who are concerned about the well-being of the nation's children, and seek politico-legal means to improve it.

From the Inside Flap
"Professor Robert C. Fellmeth, the master of child rights and remedies and the long-time maestro of child advocacy, presents his Magnum Opus to inform our intellects, challenge our consciences and galvanize our motivation on behalf of children who will either inherit our derelictions or our beneficent foresight. This book works as a very comprehensive recruiter for students and other citizens who wish to help build a society and culture that nurtures the young into fulfilling their life's possibilities."
— Ralph Nader

"Finally, a distinguished advocate/scholar has produced a casebook on child-related public policy establishment, implementation, and legal challenges that includes such key topics as impact of the political environment, children's civil tort actions, government welfare benefits, child care and child health reform, and educational opportunity. While also providing up-to-date statutory and caselaw material on such traditional child law topics as delinquency, abuse/neglect, and child custody/support, Professor Fellmeth contributes a new expert insight into the evolution of children's rights." Howard Davidson Director, ABA Center on Children and the Law, American Bar Association.

"Child Rights & Remedies does a very good job of covering the issues that professional child advocates address in the course of their work. If prospective child advocates are trained using this book, they will be much better prepared to speak out for children. It will strengthen the child advocacy community to have advocates entering the field who already understand the range of issues, political pressures, and laws that shape children's lives." Debbie Stein Director for Policy and Advocacy, National Association of Child Advocates, Washington, DC

About the Author
Robert C. Fellmeth is Executive Director of the Children's Advocacy Institute, and holder of the Price Chair in Public Interest Law at the University of San Diego. He serves as Executive Director of the Center for Public Interest Law, which he founded in 1979. He has authored or contributed to fourteen books and treatises. His appellate advocacy includes 25 reported cases. He serves as Chair of the Maternal and Child Health Access Foundation, Chair of Public Citizen Foundation in Washington, D.C., and on the Board of Foundation of America-Youth in Action. He has served as counsel of the National Association of Child Advocates since 1996 and on the Board of the National Association of Counsel for Children since 1994. He is a graduate of Stanford University (AB) and Harvard University (JD).

• Paperback: 488 pages
• Publisher: Cambridge Univ Pr (Pap Txt); ISBN: 0521664063;
(July 2002)

Book Description
This study integrates social science research, social policy, and legal analysis related to children and the law. It provides the most cutting-edge information available on topics such as child abuse, children's eyewitness testimony, divorce and custody, juvenile crime, and children's rights. The volume is an important resource for researchers, attorneys, judges, policy makers, legislators, and mental health, social service, and police professionals.

• Paperback: 444 pages
• Publisher: The Brookings Institution; ISBN: 0815706057;
(May 2002)

Book Description
A nation of great resources, the United States is confronted all too often with headlines about shootings in schools and with the unsettling reality that homicide rates for juveniles far exceed that of other industrialized nations. The challenge of reducing youth violence has prompted a flurry of commentary, legislative activity, and scholarly studies.

Focusing on the role of institutions in combating youth violence, this volume seeks to reflect its complex and multidimensional character. It brings together a wide range of skilled professionals and academics across disciplines to focus on the coordination and implementation of youth anti-violence strategies. The essays constitute a new framework to guide key players in the juvenile justice system: prosecutors, the defense bar, the courts, correction and probation departments, faith-based institutions, schools, the media, nonprofit institutions, and the private sector. —This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

About the Author
Gary S. Katzmann is director of the Governance Institute project on juvenile justice and youth violence. He is a fellow at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government and has been a prosecutor with the Department of Justice, including service as an Associate Deputy Attorney General in Washington, D.C., and as Assistant U.S. Attorney in Massachusetts, where he has been chief appellate attorney, deputy chief of the criminal division, and chief legal counsel.

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• Hardcover: 272 pages
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press; 1st edition (July 31, 2006) " ISBN: 0521853176

Book Description
This book provides the first fully annotated discussion of the ethical universe surrounding state mandated and private legal disputes involving the custody and best interest of children. It surveys thousands of court cases, statutes, state bar ethics codes, attorney general opinions, and model codes regarding ethical constraints in family and dependency proceedings. The book is unique in two ways. It analyzes ethical rules not only in terms of the chronology of these proceedings, but it also surveys those principles for each of the primary participants - children's counsel, parents' counsel, government attorneys, and judges. The book contains chapters on pre-hearing alternative dispute resolution, motion and trial practice, appellate procedures, and separation of powers. Finally, the book provides a complete child abuse case file with a comprehensive analysis of the inherent ethical issues.

About the Author
William W. Patton received his B.A. from California State University and his M.A. and J.D. from University of California, Los Angeles. He is the founding Director of the Center for Children's Rights and Legal Policy Clinic. He is also the Deputy State Public Defender and is the Assistant and Associate Dean of Whittier Law School. He has written many articles and books on the topic of juvenile justice and juvenile law advocacy.

• Hardcover: 490 pages
• Publisher: Professional Resource Press; 2nd edition (January 30, 2006)
  ISBN: 1568870876
  

Book Description
In Conducting Scientifically Crafted Child Custody Evaluations, author Jonathan W. Gould compiles the literature on child custody evaluation into a coherent, logically integrated format that can be applied directly to practice. This empirically based book represents state-of-the-art forensic techniques in the rapidly changing field of child custody evaluation. Gould challenges this dynamic field to further advance by enhancing its level of professionalism and strengthening its scientific basis. Currently, only 10% of divorcing couples with children pursue resolution of custody disputes. The author questions whether this minority comprises a unique population that requires separate, uniquely developed intervention protocols. He asks, "If the people who request forensic child custody evaluation comprise a unique population, how useful are our assessment tools when they have not been validated on this distinctive group?" Proposing new assessment models that are, in fact, based on studies with this population, Gould emphasizes that this is one of the fastest growing areas of professional involvement for practicing psychologists, counselors, and social workers. Divided into three parts, the book covers a conceptual framework, the evaluation process, and suggestions for the evaluator in preparing for court.
This book targets psychologists, social workers, and students in the fields of family social work, family psychology, family counseling, forensic psychology, family studies, and family law.

• Paperback: 227 pages
• Publisher: Haworth Press (October 2005);
  ISBN: 0789029723

Editorial Reviews
Jay Lebow, PhD, Clinical Professor of Psychology, The Family Institute at Northwestern; Past President, Division of Family Psychology, American Psychological Association
"AN EXCELLENT RESOURCE. . . Should be an essential part of every evaluator's library."

Arnold L. Stolberg, PhD, Professor of Psychology and Director of Clinical Training, Virginia Commonwealth University

• Paperback: 264 pages
• Publisher: NOLO; 4th edition (November 2003);
  ISBN: 0873379209

Editorial Reviews
New York Daily News
Clear, practical advice on identifying everyone's concerns, and strategies for effective negotiations.

American Baby
Takes you through the nitty-gritty of arranging custody...

• Paperback: 264 pages
• Publisher: NOLO; 5th edition (October 30, 2005)
  ISBN: 1413303595

Editorial Reviews
Newsday
A step-by-step guide to help even the most hostile couples work out terms for raising children after the family splits.

Washington Times
"Aims to show separating or divorcing parents how to overcome obstacles and build their own custody agreements."

• Paperback: 232 pages
• Publisher: iUniverse, Inc. (January 20, 2005);
  ISBN: 0595336566

Book Description
Help! is the first word a parent yells when dealing with a child custody battl