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Full-Text Articles in Law and Race
Mommy Dearest?: Postpartum Psychosis, The American Legal System, And The Criminalization Of Mental Illness, Allison Dopazo
Mommy Dearest?: Postpartum Psychosis, The American Legal System, And The Criminalization Of Mental Illness, Allison Dopazo
University of Miami Race & Social Justice Law Review
Children are often regarded as the most sacred beings in all of society—appealing to our collective sense of human dignity and protecting the most vulnerable. Mothers fiercely protecting their young children from perceived dangers is ostensibly a natural and moral response. This notion of the loving mother is in stark contrast to filicide, or the act of a parent murdering their child. It is a bedrock principle of the American criminal-justice system that a defendant is not responsible for their actions if the defendant was “laboring under such a defect of reason, from a disease of the mind, as not …
Re-Envisioning Child Well-Being: Dismantling The Inequitable Intersections Among Child Welfare, Juvenile Justice, And Education, Kele Stewart
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Twenty years after Shattered Bonds, Dorothy Roberts' indictment that the family regulation system polices, disrupts, and restructures Black families and communities remains urgent. Black families remain overrepresented in foster care with enshrined disparate treatment and outcomes. Black children are more likely to be removed from their homes, and their longer stays in foster care are characterized by placement instability, overly restrictive placements, the risk of abuse and exploitation, and inadequate mental health and other services. Black children also have worse educational outcomes than even other children in foster care, are over-referred to the juvenile justice system, and are more …
Covid-19 Reflections On Resilience And Reform In The Child Welfare System, Robert Latham, Kele M. Stewart
Covid-19 Reflections On Resilience And Reform In The Child Welfare System, Robert Latham, Kele M. Stewart
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State Control Of Black Mothers, Donna Coker
Colorblind Must Not Mean Blind To The Realities Facing Black Children, Zanita E. Fenton
Colorblind Must Not Mean Blind To The Realities Facing Black Children, Zanita E. Fenton
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Private Pathologies And Public Policies: Race, Class, And The Failure Of Child Welfare (Book Review), Charlton C. Copeland
Private Pathologies And Public Policies: Race, Class, And The Failure Of Child Welfare (Book Review), Charlton C. Copeland
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Foster Care: The Border Of Family Identity Maintaining, (Re)Creating, Destroying, Zanita E. Fenton
Foster Care: The Border Of Family Identity Maintaining, (Re)Creating, Destroying, Zanita E. Fenton
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Domestic Violence In Black And White: Racialized Gender Stereotypes In Gender Violence, Zanita E. Fenton
Domestic Violence In Black And White: Racialized Gender Stereotypes In Gender Violence, Zanita E. Fenton
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In A World Not Their Own: The Adoption Of Black Children, Zanita E. Fenton
In A World Not Their Own: The Adoption Of Black Children, Zanita E. Fenton
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