Abstract
In jurisdictions following the common law tradition,1 and indeed in many more, it is usual for suspected child abuse and neglect to be legally approachable through the parallel systems of criminal and civil process.2 Criminal law and procedure may be applied for the purpose of punishing child victims’ adult guardians,3 who are often their biological parents, when their conduct has caused or permitted their children to suffer in ways falling within criminal prohibitions. Civil procedures are directed towards direct protection of the children themselves while they are in the continuing charge of their parents or of other legally responsible adults.4 Protection laws may also provide means for the placement of children at risk with other, approved guardians when parents5 have been found by judicial determination to be absent or otherwise to have failed or to be likely to fail6 to satisfy standards of care set by child welfare legislation.
LL. B., LL. M., Ph. D., LL. D. (London), of the Bars of Ontario (Canada) and England: Profes?sor, Faculty of Law ; Senior Research Associate, Centre of Criminology ; Associate Professor, Fa?culty of Medicine, University of Toronto, Canada
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Dickens, B.M. (1984). Child Abuse and Criminal Process: Dilemmas in Punishment and Protection. In: Carmi, A., Zimrin, H. (eds) Child Abuse. Medicolegal Library, vol 1. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-82063-2_7
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