Child Advocacy category: 107 books
The Legal Eagles Guide for Children's Advocacy Centers Part Iii
Soaring for Advocacy and Justice
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2012
It is inevitable that a Childrens Advocacy Centers involvement with children who are suspected victims of child abuse will involve legal matters. A thorough understanding of the legal issues that routinely arise and that affect CACs and their ability to provide services cannot be fully understood...
The Legal Eagles Guide for Children's Advocacy Centers Part Iv
Soaring Higher for Children and Families
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2014
It is inevitable that a Childrens Advocacy Centers involvement with children who are suspected victims of child abuse will involve legal matters. A thorough understanding of the legal issues that routinely arise and that affect CACs and their ability to provide services cannot be fully understood...
by Stephen Nathanson
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2012
Lawyers use non-trial advocacy skills in court for pre- and post-trial submissions. They are easier to learn than trial advocacy skills, and are much more relevant to the work of most new lawyers.
This book examines all key aspects of criminal and civil non-trial advocacy, including bail applications,...
After the Cradle Falls
What Child Abuse Is, How We Respond To It, And What You Can Do About it
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2017
There may be no other social problem so common, yet so little understood by the general public, as child abuse and neglect. This book is intended to help remedy that situation. After the Cradle Falls integrates examples from folklore, songs, and news articles with the latest summary of empirical research...
Decolonising Indigenous Child Welfare
Comparative Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2013
During the past decade, a remarkable transference of responsibility to Indigenous children’s organisation has taken place in many parts of Australia, Canada, the USA and New Zealand. It has been influenced by Indigenous peoples’ human rights advocacy at national and international levels, by claims...
by James G. Dwyer
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2018
How can we end the inter-generational cycle of poverty and dysfunction in the US's urban ghettos?
This ground-breaking and controversial book is the first to provide a child-centered perspective on the subject by combining a wealth of social science information with sophisticated normative...
by William J. O'Shea
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2006
Only monsters that prey upon children need fear the Advocate. But those who harm children should be very afraid, because the Advocate is coming for them. After each killing, the Advocate calls the police and taunts them, encouraging all decent people to protect our children. Soon copycat crimes start...
by Anonymous
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2014
Table Of Contents: Custody of Children After Divorce Child Custody Cases Child Custody Evaluation Getting Ready for Child Custody Trials Thoughts on Father's Rights in Child Custody Battles Mother's Rights and Child Custody Divorce Mediation for Child Custody Types of Child Custody Arrangements Child...
Who Is Bob_34?
Investigating Child Cyberpornography
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2015
This fascinating look at the underbelly of cyberspace will be invaluable to police, criminologists, advocacy groups, journalists, and parents seeking to understand who is behind the production, distribution, and consumption of pedo-pornography.
Rights, Race, and Reform
50 Years of Child Advocacy in the Juvenile Justice System
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2018
In 1962, a 15-year-old Arizona boy named Gerald Gault may or may not have made a lewd phone call to a neighbor. Gerald was arrested, prosecuted, removed from his parents’ custody, and sent to a juvenile prison, all without legal representation. Gerald’s mother’s outrage at the treatment of her...
by Ciara Smyth
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2014
The child asylum seeker poses unique challenges for reception and refugee status determination systems, not least because the child is entitled to have his or her rights as a child respected as a matter of international and regional human rights law. In the last decade the European Union has increasingly...
Who Takes This Child?
A Parents’ Guide to Child Protection in Canada
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2013
Canadian parents facing the removal of children from their home are in for an uphill battle, and its important that their interests be protected. In Who Takes This Child?, author Allan Dare Pearce discusses the child protection laws, agencies, and processes in Canada. For more than thirty years, he...
Child Abuse Quick Reference 3e
For Health Care, Social Service, and Law Enforcement Professionals
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
490 pages, 174 images, 64 contributors The Third Edition of Child Abuse Quick Reference is completely revised and expanded, with new and emerging science for the multidisciplinary response to child abuse. It features updated models for the investigation, diagnosis, and treatment of child abuse as...
Child Abuse Pocket Atlas, Volume 5
Child Fatality and Neglect
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2016
300 pages, 646 images, 11 contributors This new pocket atlas, part 5 of an ongoing series on child abuse, is designed specifically for professionals involved in the investigation of child death, both intentional and unintentional. Readers in law enforcement, medicine, and other readers professionally...