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Ideally suited for child-focused courses that deal with the juvenile justice system or child-parent issues. This concise new casebook offers a perfect balance of scope and depth. Developed from the authors' successful Family Law casebook, Children, Parents, And The Law zeroes in on: Rights of Children, Parents, And The State Decisions About Medical Care the Juvenile Court Child Abuse and Neglect the authors draw on their own classroom experience and: utilize a series of problems throughout the book some short, others longer and more complex to explore each topic take an interdisciplinary approach, drawing information from psychology and sociology where appropriate maintain a balanced perspective in their coverage of the issues, with no ideological bias provide sufficient coverage of juvenile courts to make the book extremely effective in courses with that focus

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• Preface(p. xxvii)
• Acknowledgments(p. xxix)
• I Parent, Child, and State: Rights and Interests(p. 1)
• Chapter 1. Rights of Children, Parents, and the State: The Education and Rearing of Children(p. 3)
• A. Introduction(p. 3)
• 1. The Rights of Children(p. 5)
• 2. The Rights of Parents(p. 9)
• B. Rights and Interests in Connection with Education(p. 18)
• 1. The Child's "Right" to Education(p. 18)
• 2. Parental Authority and the Right to Education(p. 44)
• 3. Parental Choice and the Public School Curriculum(p. 75)
• 4. Prayer and Religious Curricula in Public Schools(p. 121)
• Chapter 2. Rights of Children, Parents, and the State: Children's Rights as Autonomy Claims(p. 129)
• A. Children's Rights as Autonomy Claims(p. 129)
• 1. Introduction(p. 129)
• 2. The Speech Rights of Minors(p. 132)
• 3. Rights to Reproductive Decision-Making(p. 174)
• Chapter 3. Decisions About Medical Care(p. 231)
• A. The Constitutional Framework(p. 232)
• B. State Authority When Parents Decline Medical Treatment(p. 244)
• C. The Role of Religious Belief(p. 256)
• D. Are the Rules for Infants Different?(p. 271)
• E. Adolescents' Views About Their Own Care(p. 281)
• F. Beyond Treatment--Organ Donation and Medical Experimentation(p. 291)
• 1. Organ Donation(p. 292)
• 2. Research with Children(p. 299)
• II Juvenile Courts and Delinquency(p. 313)
• Chapter 4. The Theory of the American Juvenile Court(p. 315)
• A. Introduction(p. 315)
• B. The Theory of the American Juvenile Court(p. 320)
• 1. The Origins and Method of the Juvenile Court(p. 320)
• 2. Substance and Procedure in the Traditional Juvenile Court(p. 327)
• 3. The Questioning of Juvenile Court Theory and Practice(p. 338)
• 4. Early Interpretations of Gault(p. 349)
• 5. Consolidation or Retrenchment(p. 352)
• C. Juvenile Court Jurisdiction Over Misconduct by Children(p. 364)
• 1. The Responsibility of Youths for Criminal Misconduct(p. 364)
• 2. The Responsibility of Parents for Delinquent Behavior(p. 385)
• D. Rethinking the Juvenile Court Experiment: Removal of Minors from the Juvenile Court(p. 397)
• 1. The Importance of the Transfer Decision(p. 402)
• 2. Mechanisms for Transferring Jurisdiction(p. 410)
• E. Parent-Child Conflict and Status Offenses in the Juvenile Court(p. 436)
• 1. Status Offense Jurisdiction(p. 437)
• 2. Emancipation(p. 494)
• Chapter 5. The Juvenile Court: Rights and Procedures Prior to Trial(p. 499)
• A. Children, Police, and the State(p. 499)
• 1. Arrest, Search, and Seizure(p. 499)
• 2. Interrogations and Confessions(p. 545)
• B. Pre-Adjudication Processes(p. 565)
• 1. Intake and Diversion(p. 565)
• 2. Detention(p. 577)
• Chapter 6. The Juvenile Court: Rights and Procedures at Adjudication and Disposition(p. 601)
• A. Adjudication(p. 601)
• 1. Notice of Charges(p. 601)
• 2. Competence to Stand Trial(p. 604)
• 3. Double Jeopardy(p. 616)
• 4. Jury Trial(p. 624)
• 5. Speedy Trial(p. 631)
• 6. The "Guilty" Plea(p. 637)
• B. Disposition(p. 638)
• 1. Dispositional Standards(p. 638)
• 2. Dispositional Alternatives(p. 670)
• C. Counsel for Children and Parents(p. 692)
• 1. The Right to Counsel(p. 692)
• 2. The Role of Counsel(p. 703)
• III Child Abuse and Neglect(p. 731)
• Chapter 7. Defining and Discovering Child Abuse and Neglect(p. 733)
• A. The Meanings of Child Abuse and Neglect(p. 733)
• 1. Physical Abuse(p. 745)
• 2. Sexual Abuse(p. 752)
• 3. Physical and Emotional Neglect(p. 759)
• 4. Failure to Protect(p. 764)
• B. Discovery and Investigation of Child Abuse and Neglect(p. 774)
• 1. Child Abuse Reporting Statutes(p. 774)
• 2. Agency Response to Reports(p. 775)
• Chapter 8. The Child Welfare System(p. 795)
• A. Jurisdiction and Disposition(p. 802)
• B. Reasonable Efforts to Prevent Removal and Reunite(p. 816)
• C. Postdisposition-Implementing the Plan for Permanency(p. 827)
• 1. The Supervisory Role of the Juvenile Court(p. 829)
• 2. Suits to Enforce Rights Under Federal Child Welfare Statutes(p. 831)
• 3. The Persistence of the Foster Care Issue and Continuing Reform Efforts(p. 832)
• D. Termination of Parental Rights(p. 840)
• 1. Grounds for Termination(p. 841)
• 2. Procedural Issues(p. 854)
• E. Challenges and Alternatives to the Current System(p. 868)
• F. Children's Advocates in Abuse and Neglect Cases(p. 877)
• Chapter 9. Criminal Prosecution of Child Abuse and Neglect(p. 885)
• A. When to Punish and Why?(p. 885)
• B. Coordinating Criminal and Juvenile Court Proceedings(p. 896)
• C. Special Evidentiary Problems(p. 906)
• Table of Cases(p. 929)
• Index(p. 935)