Deshaney Case Child Abuse, Family Rights, and the Dilemma of State Intervention

Name: Deshaney Case Child Abuse, Family Rights, and the Dilemma of State Intervention
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ISBN: 9780700614974

ISBN-10: 0700614974

ISBN-13: 9780700614974

Edition: 2007

Authors: Lynne Curry, Dept. of Social Services Staff Winnebago County (Wis.)

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"Poor Joshua!" lamented Justice Harry Blackmun in his famous dissent. "Victim of repeated attacks by an irresponsible, bullying, obviously cowardly, and intemperate father, and abandoned by respondents who placed him in a dangerous predicament and who knew or learned what was going on, and yet did essentially nothing...." Even so, the Supreme Court, by a 6-to-3 margin, absolved Wisconsin officials of any negligence in a case that had left a young child profoundly damaged for the rest of his life. Does the Constitution protect children from violent parents? As Lynne Curry shows, that was the central question at issue when Melody DeShaney initially sued Wisconsin for failing to protect her…

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List price: $19.95
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: University Press of Kansas
Publication date: 3/1/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 176
Size: 6.15" wide x 8.42" long x 0.52" tall
Weight: 0.484
Language: English



Editors' Preface


Acknowledgments


Introduction



Joshua's Story



Child Protection in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries



The Crime of Child Abuse



DeShaney v. Winnebago County in the Lower Courts



DeShaney v. Winnebago County in the U.S. Supreme Court



"Poor Joshua!" DeShaney v. Winnebago County in the Court of Public Opinion


Chronology


Bibliographic Essay


Index