Product Description: This concise casebook provides a comprehensive introduction to substantive criminal law. While focusing primarily on California law, it covers the broad principles of criminal law that are tested on the bar examination, including the Multistate Bar Examination...read more

Product Description: Specifically created to complement the Third Edition of the APSAC Handbook on Child Maltreatment, this collection of 23 carefully selected articles on child abuse and neglect parallels the structure of the Handbook. It is also a great companion to other Sage books, such as Barnett's Family Violence Across the Lifespan and Miller and Perrin's Child Maltreatment...read more

Product Description: Child abuse and neglect are intractable problems exacting a terrible toll on children and rending the very fabric of our society. What can be done to reduce the suffering? If there were simple solutions to abuse and neglect they would have been discovered long ago...read more

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Product Description: When parents - usually mothers - try to protect their children from sexual abuse, they can be devastated to find that support from the legal system is not always there. Suspecting their husbands or partners of the abuse, mothers may seek a divorce and custody or, if already divorced, request withdrawal of visitation rights...read more

Staying current with the latest changes in this sensitive area of the law is quite a challenge. With this exhaustive resource in your library, your worries are over. This comprehensive book clearly sets forth the latest case law on the complex evidentiary and constitutional issues faced by an attorney prosecuting or defending child abuse and neglect proceedings. You'll get relevant information on stages of child development and how they apply to this type of litigation. A compilation of appellate case law on child abuse and neglect law, and psychological issues is also included. Integrating the wisdom of the psychological, medical, and legal disciplines, this work guides you through all of the investigative and litigation issues. Also included are forms and checklists to assist in discovery.

Product Description: Obtaining accurate testimony from young children is a central concern in a range of criminal, civil, and family court proceedings. But in cases of physical and sexual abuse, the child victim may be the only eyewitness. As the incidence of abuse grows, so has the need for dependable interviewing techniques...read more

Product Description: This controversial work counters the forces that are discrediting allegations and suppressing recognition of the alarming incidence of child abuse in our society. John Myers brings together the work of experts to make the volume crucial reading for anyone concerned with this critical debate...read more

Product Description: Professionals from social work, psychology, nursing, medicine and related disciplines are increasingly being confronted by issues of law in their interaction with abused and neglected children. Serving to familiarize these practitioners with the innumerable legal implications of their day-to-day work, this volume delineates American legal aspects of interviewing children who may be abused or neglected...read more