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  • Bonded to the Abuser

    How Victims Make Sense of Childhood Abuse

    Tens of thousands of children are removed from home each year due to some form of child maltreatment, usually physical neglect, physical abuse, or sexual abuse, although sometimes for emotional abuse as well. An additional significant number of children are victims of child maltreatment but remain in their home. Extensive research reveals the far reaching and long lasting negative impact of ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • Be An Autism Avenger

    by Xander A Bell ...
    Step up and be an Autistic Advocate! This will help you understand the very general guidelines of supporting those of the spectrum. ... Read more

    Free

  • Little Book of Conflict Transformation

    Clear Articulation Of The Guiding Principles By A Pioneer In The Field

    by John Lederach ...
    Series series Justice and Peacebuilding
    This clearly articulated statement offers a hopeful and workable approach to conflict—that eternally beleaguering human situation. John Paul Lederach is internationally recognized for his breakthrough thinking and action related to conflict on all levels—person-to-person, factions within communities, warring nations. He explores why "conflict transformation" is more appropriate than "conflict ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • Child Mental and the Law

    The legal aspects of child mental health have changed in recent years, yet many who deal professionally with disturbed children are ill informed about the rights and responsibilities of minors. Child Mental Health and the Law addresses the need for a comprehensive, up-to-date text that describes the evolution of child mental health law and the relevance of the law to the child mental health ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • Little Kids, Big Accidents: What Every Parent Should Know About Children & Accidents

    Little Kids, Big Accidents is a book to help parents understand and protect their child's rights following a traumatic accident. This informative book includes:* Basic facts about children and accidents* Important legal ramifications in child injury cases* Determining the value of child injury claims* The settlement of child injury claims* Understanding children and traumatic brain injury* The ... Read more

    Free

  • Children's Rights and Sex Industry

    A legal case: children's rights and sex industry or the rights of sex workers. ... Read more

    Free

  • Child Labor in America

    The Epic Legal Struggle to Protect Children

    Child labor law strikes most Americans as a fixture of the country’s legal landscape, involving issues settled in the distant past. But these laws, however self-evidently sensible they might seem, were the product of deeply divisive legal debates stretching over the past century—and even now are subject to constitutional challenges. Child Labor in America tells the story of that historic legal ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • The Devry Smith Frank LLP Guide to the Basics of Ontario Family Law, 3rd Edition

    A Short and Easy-to-Understand Guide to Separation, Divorce, Child and Family Law Issues, the Family Court Process and the Alternatives to Court

    Are you separating? Do you have no idea what to expect? What does getting married really mean? The Guide to the Basics of Ontario Family Law is for everyone who: is separating or divorcing, needs to change an order or separation agreement, is involved with a children's aid society, is getting married or living "common law", or needs to understand Ontario Family Law. It explains what to do after ... Read more

    $8.00 USD

  • A Cruel Arithmetic

    Inside the Case Against Polygamy

    by Craig Jones ...
    For thirty years, lawyers, pundits, professors, and politicians had said that section 293 of the Criminal Code of Canadathe criminal prohibition of polygamywas unconstitutional, a Victorian anachronism that, in a modern rights-based democracy, deserved to be swept aside in the name of individual liberty and religious freedom. Polygamy per se, it was argued, was harmless. Beginning in 2009 in ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Prosecuted But Not Silenced

    Courtroom Reform for Sexually Abused Children

    Prosecuted But Not Silenced is a powerful documentary about a mother and daughter's tragic involvement with the judicial system when there were allegations of child sexual abuse—a human rights and civil rights issue for women and children. It is an important educational tool for judges, lawyers, social workers, therapists, politicians, and the general public so that people realize what still ... Read more

    $8.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Choosing the Future for American Juvenile Justice

    Series Book 5 - Youth, Crime, and Justice
    Thisis a hopeful but complicated era for those with ambitions to reform thejuvenile courts and youth-serving public institutions in the United States. As advocates plea for major reforms, many fear the public backlash inmaking dramatic changes. Choosing the Future for American Juvenile Justiceprovides a look at the recent trends in juvenile justice as well as suggestionsfor reforms and policy ... Read more

    Free

  • Encounters with Rikki

    From Hurricane Katrina Rescue to Exceptional Therapy Dog

    Encounters with Rikki tells the true story of the incredible partnership between Chuck and Rikki, a very special rescue dog. Rikki first found her home with Chuck and Patty Mitchell in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. Even though the golden retriever was a shy, shell-shocked puppy still adapting to the stress of displacement, Chuck recognized her innate abilities as a therapy dog. Together they ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • The Murder of Innocence

    The Truth about Sexual Abuse and the Catholic Church

    by Sam Unglo ...
    Michael Unglo died on May 4, 2010, but his life had begun to slip away from him long before. In 1981, shortly before Michael’s 10th birthday his father died of a heart attack, a great loss that ultimately led to yet another great loss. The loss of innocence.From the ages of 10 to 14, Michael fell prey to a Catholic priest who exploited the family’s tragedy for his own twisted desires. Child sexual ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Liberal Child Welfare Policy and its Destruction of Black Lives

    How can we end the inter-generational cycle of poverty and dysfunction in the US's urban ghettos?This ground-breaking and controversial book is the first to provide a child-centered perspective on the subject by combining a wealth of social science information with sophisticated normative analysis to support novel reforms—to child protection law and practice, family law, and zoning— that would ... Read more

    $56.99 USD

  • The Impossible Imperative

    Navigating the Competing Principles of Child Protection

    The Impossible Imperative brings to life the daily efforts of child welfare professionals working on behalf of vulnerable children and families. Stories that highlight the work, written by child welfare staff on the front lines, speak to the competing principles that shape everyday decisions. The book shows that, rather than being a simple task of protecting children, the field of child welfare is ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • Estatuto da Criança e do Adolescente

    19ª edição

    Series series Legislação
    A 19ª edição do Estatuto da Criança e do Adolescente reúne em um único volume toda a legislação que dispõe sobre a proteção integral à criança e ao adolescente. Atualizada até 23/8/2021, a coletânea inclui o Estatuto da Juventude, a Lei do Projovem, a Convenção sobre os Direitos da Criança (Nova York, 1989), o Marco Legal da Primeira Infância, a Lei Nacional de Adoção, a Lei de Investigação de ... Read more

    Free

  • After the Cradle Falls

    What Child Abuse Is, How We Respond To It, And What You Can Do About it

    There may be no other social problem so common, yet so little understood by the general public, as child abuse and neglect. This book is intended to help remedy that situation. After the Cradle Falls integrates examples from folklore, songs, and news articles with the latest summary of empirical research to create an accessible and engaging work intended to provoke the reader to think about how to ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Estatuto da criança e do adolescente

    Series series Legislação avulsa
    A Lei nº 8.069/1990 dispõe sobre o Estatuto que assegura à criança e ao adolescente todos os direitos fundamentais, além das oportunidades que lhes garantam o desenvolvimento físico, mental, moral, espiritual e social, em condições de liberdade e de dignidade. Os direitos enunciados no Estatuto da Criança e do Adolescente aplicam-se a todas as crianças e adolescentes do País, sem discriminação de ... Read more

    Free

  • Surviving Parental Alienation

    A Journey of Hope and Healing

    Half of all marriages end, and, when they do, most parents hope to achieve a “good divorce” in which they can amicably raise their children with their former spouse. Unfortunately, about 20% of divorces are high-conflict, involving frequent visits to court, allegations of abuse, and chronic disagreements regarding parenting schedules.In response to this conflict, some children become aligned with ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • Labeled

    Ward of the State

    An abandoned child of drug-addicted parents and Florida’s broken child-welfare system, Kenisha E. Anthony was left to wonder if anyone would ever want her. As a young girl, desperate for love and belonging, she bounced from one unstable home to the next, packing only resentment, abandonment, and heartbreak to take with her. Still, Kenisha found her way, ultimately breaking barriers and shattering ... Read more

    $8.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Au tribunal pour enfants

    L'avocat, le juge, le procureur et l'éducateur

    Series series Le sens social
    Si la délinquance juvénile est un sujet largement étudié, il existe cependant peu d'observations sur les audiences de tribunal au cours desquelles les mineurs délinquants sont jugés. Comment se déroulent-elles ? Quelles sont leurs particularités ? Qui sont les professionnels impliqués et quels rôles jouent-ils ? Patricia Benec'h-Le Roux propose aux lecteurs de pénétrer dans cet univers « à ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Chroniques du mépris ordinaire - Placements abusifs

    Ce que j'ai vu...

    by Michel Amas ...
    Series series Témoignage
    330 000 enfants relèvent de l’aide sociale à l’enfance et 226 000 sont placés en famille d'accueil ou en foyer.Maître Michel Amas, avocat au barreau de Marseille, défend les familles d’enfants placés. Il dresse un état des lieux accablant des institutions chargées de protéger ces mineurs. Au travers de 50 cas, 50 dossiers, il surligne les problèmes et les errements de ce système à bout de souffle. ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • The Advocate

    Only monsters that prey upon children need fear the Advocate. But those who harm children should be very afraid, because the Advocate is coming for them. After each killing, the Advocate calls the police and taunts them, encouraging all decent people to protect our children. Soon copycat crimes start to occur across the country.Lt. Diego Santucci is assigned to stop the serial killings. In the ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • The Improbable Verdict

    How One Person Beat the Cheats and Got Justice for His Clients

    by Barry Brandt ...
    A poorly trained, seventy-five-year-old driver illegally parked his big-rig tractor-trailer on the side of the highway. On a pitch black November morning, a family SUV slammed into and under the rear of the parked truck. The father/driver and one son, sitting behind him, were killed on impact. Two other young children exited through a rear window.The mother was trapped in the front passenger seat, ... Read more

    $9.99 USD