Child Abuse: Law and Policy across Boundaries (Oxford Monographs on Criminal Law and Justice)

This book considers the law relating to child abuse across the legal disciplines of family, criminal, tort and evidence law, as well as law and practice relating to the investigation of complaints of child abuse. It analyses the strengths and weaknesses of the reponse of each legal framework to allegations of child abuse, and places this analysis in the context of innovative legal policies and practices of other similar jurisdictions (most notably Canada, the United States, Australia and New Zealand). The book is unique in its analysis of such a wide range of legal frameworks within their social and political context.