Prosecuting child abuse : an evaluation of the government's speedy progress policy / Joyce Plotnikoff and Richard Woolfson.

London : Blackstone Press Limited, 1995.

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Child abuse.

1. Introduction --2. The government's policy of speedy progress for child abuse prosecutions --3. Methodology --4. Profile of children and study cases --5. The length of time taken to dispose of study cases --6. The response of the criminal justice system: the police --7. The response of the child's interests in the prosecution process --8. The response of the criminal justice system: the courts --10. The management of child abuse prosecutions.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ix, 109 p.