The Development of Child Protection Law and Policy: Children, Risk and Modernities

ISBN-13: 9781032237312 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 264 str.

Kieran Walsh

Opis

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This book examines how child protection law has been shaped by the transition to late modernity and how it copes with the ever-changing concept of risk.

Spis treści

Chapter 1: Modernity, Reflexivity, Risk And The Law;

Chapter 2: Threats, Victims And Agents: Victorian Law Reform And The Beginning Of Modern Child Protection;

Chapter 3: Children In The Constitutional Order Of Traditional Modernity;

Chapter 4: Children And Risk In Independent Ireland, 1921-1970;

Chapter 5: The Twilight Of Traditional Modernity: Children In Child Protection Law And Policy, 1970-1993;

Chapter 6: Children’s Rights And Constitutional Change;

Chapter 7: Child Abuse And Risk In A New Modernity: Child Protecion Law And Policy 1992 – 2006;

Chapter 8: Agents Of Change: Children And Risk In Reflexive Modernity 2006-2017;

O autorze

Kieran Walsh is a Senior Lecturer in Family and Child Law at the University of Portsmouth, UK.