Child Maltreatment and the Law

I. Introduction: The Nature and Limits of Child Maltreatment Law

1. The Increasingly Curious Response to Children's Harms

II. The Legal Regulation of Family Life

2. Families, Child Welfare, and the Constitution

3. Suitable Families and Parents in Law

III. Legal Responses to Child Maltreatment

4. Defining Maltreatment and Permitting Startlingly Broad State Intervention

5. Removing Children From Maltreating Families

6. Enlisting Criminal Justice Systems in Child Protection

7. Shifting Rules Regulating the Role of Expertise

IV. Returning to Child Welfare Law's Foundations

8. Rethinking Laws Regulating Child Protection

Nyckelord: Psychology, Child and School Psychology, Law and Psychology, Law, general, Criminology & Criminal Justice, Social Work, Education (general)