Child abuse : law and policy across boundaries / Laura C.H. Hoyano and Caroline Keenan.

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2007.

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Child abuse -- Law and legislation.

Child abuse -- Law and legislation -- England.

Comparative law.

I. Themes and Questions --1. Introduction --II. The legal framework for adjudicating allegations --2. Family law --3. Liability in criminal law --4. Liability in tort and human rights law --III. The inquiry process --5. Investigating and evaluating allegations of abuse --IV. Adjudication of the allegation --6. Introduction --7. Access to evidence --8. The child witness --9. Testing the credibility of the child complainant --10. Testing the credibility of the alleged abuser --11. The admissibility of expert evidence --V. Child abuse law and policy: evaluation --12. Themes and future directions.

This book considers the themes and policy considerations driving each form of legal response to the problem of child abuse. It also 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 and Australia.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

9780198299462

lxxix, 1,002 p.