Child abuse
Subtitle: law and policy across boundaries
By: Laura Hoyano and Caroline Keenan.
Contributors: Keenan, Caroline.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 1002
ISBN-13: 9780198299462
Subjects: Child abuse -- Law and legislation.; Child abuse -- Law and legislation -- England.
Description: "This book looks across the legal and geographical boundaries within which the legal discussion of child abuse is usually confined. It considers the themes and policy considerations driving each form of legal response to the problem of child abuse. It provides a detailed discussion of the law governing the trial of allegations of child abuse in the key areas of family, criminal, and tort law in English law; and compares this with the approaches in other common law jurisdictions using the adversarial mode of trial, in particular in Canada, the United States, New Zealand, Australia, and Scotland."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Family law; title: Liability in criminal law; title: Liability in tort and human rights law; title: Investigating and evaluating allegations of abuse; title: Introduction : themes and influences; title: Access to evidence; title: The child witness; title: Testing the credibility of the child complainant; title: Testing the credibility of the alleged abuser; title: The admissibility of expert evidence; title: Themes and future directions.