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Children and the Law, Doctrine, Policy, and Practice

7th Edition
Douglas E. Abrams | Susan V. Mangold | Sarah H. Ramsey
ISBN: 9781642428988
Subject: Children And The Law
Format: Print - Hardbound
Page Count: 1200
Copyright: 2020 | Status: In Stock
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This popular casebook contains new cases and materials that capture rapid changes in child advocacy and juvenile justice. The book continues its interdisciplinary emphasis, practical approach, and in-depth coverage of lawyering, child abuse and neglect, foster care, adoption, status offenses, and delinquency. Chapters on children’s rights and obligations, regulatory legislation, financial relationships, and medical decision-making enable flexible approaches to the course. The new edition covers contemporary issues such as demographics of international adoption, childhood vaccines and immunizations, delinquency, and juvenile crime sanction and treatment. Notes and Problems (including ones drawn from the national headlines) orient students and provide background for vibrant classroom discussion. A comprehensive, up-to-date teacher’s manual accompanies the book, and the authors will continue to share their thoughts with professors about its most effective classroom use to prepare the next generation of children’s lawyers.


Imprint: West Academic Publishing
Series: American Casebook Series
Publication Date: 04/27/2020
Related Subject(s): Family Law

Douglas E. Abrams, University of Missouri-Columbia School of Law

Susan V. Mangold, State University of New York - Buffalo School of Law

Sarah H. Ramsey, Syracuse University College of Law

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The new edition covers contemporary issues such as demographics of international adoption, childhood vaccines and immunizations, delinquency, and juvenile crime sanction and treatment.

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