Children's rights under the law
By: Samuel M. Davis
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 459
ISBN-13: 9780199795482
Subjects: Parent and child (Law); United States. Supreme Court; United States; Administration of Juvenile justice; Children's rights; Children; Legal status, laws
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 429-441) and index.
Table of contents: title: The place of children in the law; title: Private law and children's rights; title: "Life, liberty and property" : the Supreme Court and children's rights; title: "Life" : medical decision-making for children; title: "Liberty" : personal freedom of children; title: "Property" : protected entitlements of children; title: Children and education; title: Protection from inadequate parenting; title: The Supreme Court and juvenile justice; title: Delinquency : differential treatment of children and adults; title: Adjudication; title: The dispositional process; title: Conclusion : balancing the interests.