Medical Law category: 575 books
The New Handbook of Children's Rights
Comparative Policy and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2001
The new edition of this well established handbook provides up-to-date information on a topic of increasing importance across a range of disciplines and practices. It covers:* the debate concerning children's rights and developments in rights provision over the last twenty years* the impact of recent British legislation on children's rights in key a
Is Anyone Listening?
Accountability and Women Survivors of Domestic Violence
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2004
Domestic violence is in the public eye as never before, but how often are abused women consulted or involved in the new services and policies? This book investigates, and reveals that the voices of survivors of domestic violence are often simply not heard; silenced, the women themselves become invisible.
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Child Custody Litigation
Allegations of Child Sexual Abuse
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2006
Learn what to do when allegations of child sexual abuse become part of the child custody processChild Custody Litigation: Allegations of Child Sexual Abuse is an invaluable resource for forensic mental health professionals involved with conducting custody evaluations in family court proceedings. Each of the book‘s five chapters reviews an important
by Maureen Y. Lichtveld, Barry L. Johnson
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2017
As with the first edition, this second edition describes how environmental health policies are developed, the statutes and other policies that have evolved to address public health concerns associated with specific environmental hazards, and the public health foundations of the policies. It lays out...
HIV Pioneers
Lives Lost, Careers Changed, and Survival
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2018
Tremendous strides have been made in the prevention and treatment of HIV since the disease first appeared in the 1980s. But because many of the people who studied and battled the virus in those early days are now gone, firsthand accounts are at risk of being lost. In HIV Pioneers, Wendee M. Wechsberg...
A Street Survival Guide for Public Safety Officers
The Cop Doc's Strategies for Surviving Trauma, Loss, and Terrorism
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2012
An expansion of Dr. Rudofossi's theory of Police and Public Safety Complex Trauma, this text integrates other models of trauma and loss into a one-of-a-kind intervention model. It offers insider perspectives from police psychologists, police managers, and clinicians describing what police personnel...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2017
This book provides a unique perspective on addressing issues of various forms of violence against children from scholars within their own country. Bringing together cross-disciplinary expertise, this volume addresses a vast range of topics related to child abuse and neglect in Uganda.
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Child Welfare in the Legal Setting
A Critical and Interpretive Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2013
Explore legal issues that often hinder the work of child welfare practitioners!
Child Welfare in the Legal Setting: A Critical and Interpretive Perspective is a revolutionary study of the child welfare system that is essential for practitioners, educators, and students interested in public...
by Nathan J. Gordon
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2016
Throughout history, there has been an intrinsic need for humans to detect deception in other humans. Developed in 1923, the polygraph machine was a tool designed to do just this. To date, there have been many improvements made to the basic polygraph instrument. This book outlines the instrumentation...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2015
Forensic Biology provides coordinated expert content from world-renowned leading authorities in forensic biology. Covering the range of forensic biology, this volume in the Advanced Forensic Science Series provides up-to-date scientific learning on DNA analysis. Technical information, written with...
From Children to Citizens
Volume I: The Mandate for Juvenile Justice
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
From the preface: "History has dealt the juvenile court (and, more broadly, the juvenile justice system) a cruel blow. What began as a promising social experiment has disappointed nearly everyone... Inevitably, disillusionment has weakened the mandate of the juvenile justice system. Conflicts...
Theoretical and Empirical Insights into Child and Family Poverty
Cross National Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2015
This book brings together a range of theoretical and empirical perspectives on conceptualization, measurement, multidimensional impacts and policy and service responses to address child and family poverty. It illuminates issues and trends through country level chapters, thus shedding light on dynamics...
A Court of Refuge
Stories from the Bench of America's First Mental Health Court
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2018
The story of America’s first Mental Health Court as told by its presiding judge, Judge Ginger Lerner-Wren—from its inception in 1997 to its implementation in over 400 courts across the nation
As a young legal advocate, Ginger Lerner-Wren bore witness to the consequences of an underdeveloped...
by David Ranson, Soren Blau, Chris O'Donnell
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2017
Post-mortem computed tomography (PMCT) is increasingly used in forensic pathology practice in many jurisdictions. Such imaging has expanded the capacity to evaluate skeletal trauma improving the visualisation, documentation and presentation of forensic findings. Typically when deceased persons are...