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Prevent Child Abuse, Kristen Jenkins
Prevent Child Abuse, Kristen Jenkins
Creating Change: The Online Journal of Zines about Social Movements
No abstract provided.
The Movement To Prevent Child Abuse And Neglect, Kristen Jenkins
The Movement To Prevent Child Abuse And Neglect, Kristen Jenkins
Creating Change: The Online Journal of Zines about Social Movements
No abstract provided.
Child Maltreatment Fatalities: A Report From The 2010-11 Bridgewater Presidential Fellow, Emily Douglas
Child Maltreatment Fatalities: A Report From The 2010-11 Bridgewater Presidential Fellow, Emily Douglas
Bridgewater Review
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Missing And Exploited Children In Jamaica: An Empirical Analysis, Lorna E. Grant
Missing And Exploited Children In Jamaica: An Empirical Analysis, Lorna E. Grant
Contemporary Issues in Juvenile Justice
This paper is an analysis of missing, abused, and exploited children in Jamaica. I examined the responses of advocate groups and the government to determine the steps to take to protect children who are most vulnerable. I collected data through interviews from the Police National Intelligence Bureau, the Office of the Children's Registry, the Office of Children Advocate, literature review, and the printed media (e.g., The Jamaica Gleaner, The Jamaica Observer, and The Jamaica Star).
Achieving Justice In Child Protection, Rob Neff
Achieving Justice In Child Protection, Rob Neff
The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare
As formal systems for the protection of children have evolved in this country, certain barriers to achieving justice within the child protection system have emerged concomitantly. Specifically, these barriers involve ambiguous definitions of abuse and the appearance of social inequality and bias within the child protection system. One means of surmounting these barriers to justice is family group conferencing (FGC). Support for this assertion comes from the integration of the restorative justice model and procedural justice theory. When applied to the practice of FGCs in child protection, the integration of these theoretical perspectives provides a strong rationale for the use …