The development of child protection law and policy : children, risk and modernities / Kieran Walsh.

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. The book traces the evolution of the contemporary child protection system through historical changes, assessing the factors that have influenced th...

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Main Author: Walsh, Kieran
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London : Routledge, 2020.
Series:Studies in citizenship, human rights and the law.
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Table of Contents:
  • Chapter 1: Modernity, Reflexivity, Risk And The Law; <P>Chapter 2: Threats, Victims And Agents: Victorian Law Reform And The Beginning Of Modern Child Protection;</P><P>Chapter 3: Children In The Constitutional Order Of Traditional Modernity;</P><P>Chapter 4: Children And Risk In Independent Ireland, 1921-1970;</P><P>Chapter 5: The Twilight Of Traditional Modernity: Children In Child Protection Law And Policy, 1970-1993;</P><P>Chapter 6: Children's Rights And Constitutional Change;</P><P>Chapter 7: Child Abuse And Risk In A New Modernity: Child Protecion Law And Policy 1992
  • 2006;</P><P>Chapter 8: Agents Of Change: Children And Risk In Reflexive Modernity 2006-2017;</P>