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Crimes And Offenses Child Endangerment: Define Criminal Negligence; Provide For Legislative Findings And Intent; Change The Definition Of Cruelty To Children To Provide For Third Degree Cruelty To Children; Provide For Penalties; Provide For Definitions; Make It Unlawful For Persons To Engage In Certain Activities Associated With Manufacturing Of Possessing Methamphetamine In The Presence Of Children; Refine The Term "Serious Injury" To Include Sexual Abuse Of A Minor Under The Age Of 16 Years, Jeremy P. Burnette Sep 2004

Crimes And Offenses Child Endangerment: Define Criminal Negligence; Provide For Legislative Findings And Intent; Change The Definition Of Cruelty To Children To Provide For Third Degree Cruelty To Children; Provide For Penalties; Provide For Definitions; Make It Unlawful For Persons To Engage In Certain Activities Associated With Manufacturing Of Possessing Methamphetamine In The Presence Of Children; Refine The Term "Serious Injury" To Include Sexual Abuse Of A Minor Under The Age Of 16 Years, Jeremy P. Burnette

Georgia State University Law Review

Child Endangerment: Define Criminal Negligence; Provide for Legislative Findings and Intent; Change the Definition of Cruelty to Children to Provide for Third Degree Cruelty to Children; Provide for Penalties; Provide for Definitions; Make It Unlawful for Persons to Engage in Certain Activities Associated with manufacturing of Possessing Methamphetamine in the Presence of Children; Refine the Term Serious Injury to Include Sexual Abuse of a Minor Under the Age of 16 Years; Provide for Related Matters; Provide for an Effective Date and Applicability; Repeal Conflicting Laws; and for Other Purposes


The Ims Health Decision: A Triple Victory, Estelle Derclaye Jan 2004

The Ims Health Decision: A Triple Victory, Estelle Derclaye

Estelle Derclaye

No abstract provided.


The Ims Health Decision: A Triple Victory, Estelle Derclaye Jan 2004

The Ims Health Decision: A Triple Victory, Estelle Derclaye

Estelle Derclaye

No abstract provided.


A Delicate Task: Balancing The Rights Of Children And Mothers In Parental Termination Proceedings, Catherine J. Ross Jan 2004

A Delicate Task: Balancing The Rights Of Children And Mothers In Parental Termination Proceedings, Catherine J. Ross

GW Law Faculty Publications & Other Works

This article considers the independent liberty interests of children in foster care and their mothers in parental termination proceedings. Federal reforms enacted in 1997 impose a mandatory deadline for the state to terminate parental rights. That policy erroneously presumes that the passage of time suffices to establish parental fault and satisfies a parent's due process rights to her child. The policy also fails to protect the minority of children in foster care who assert an interest in preserving a safe relationship with mothers who are unlikely to regain custody within the state's time frame - including many substance abusers, incarcerated …


The Public Choice Of Elder Abuse Law, Margaret F. Brinig, Gerald Jogerst, Jeanette Daly, Gretchen Schmuch, Jeffrey Dawson Jan 2004

The Public Choice Of Elder Abuse Law, Margaret F. Brinig, Gerald Jogerst, Jeanette Daly, Gretchen Schmuch, Jeffrey Dawson

Journal Articles

This interdisciplinary study finds that the way laws are written and treated by state regulators measurably affects bureaucratic performance: the care taken by legislatures and state agencies in developing domestic elder abuse law affects how lower-level bureaucrats investigate and report abuse. Perhaps more interesting, however, are two robust findings about state law making. Both legislator characteristics (here, being middle-aged or slightly older) and lobbying by seemingly the most important group (here, the American Association of Retired Persons [AARP]) sometimes have an unexpected effect. We surmise that these legislators and lobbyists find other issues both more politically attractive and more pressing …