Marci A. Hamilton

Justice Denied

What America Must Do to Protect Its Children

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Produktbeschreibung

Hamilton proposes the elimination of the arbitrary barrier that has kept survivors of childhood sexual abuse out of court - the statutes of limitation.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 176
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. März 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 10mm
• Gewicht: 265g
• ISBN-13: 9781107673120
• ISBN-10: 1107673127
• Artikelnr.: 35456679

Autorenporträt

Marci A. Hamilton is Professor of Practice in the Department of Political Science and Fox Family Pavilion Non-resident Senior Fellow in the Program for Research on Religion at the University of Pennsylvania. She holds master's degrees in philosophy and English from Pennsylvania State University and a J.D. from the University of Pennsylvania School of Law, where she served as editor-in-chief of the University of Pennsylvania Law Review. She clerked for United States Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor. Hamilton is the author of God vs. the Gavel: The Perils of Extreme Religious Liberty, Fundamentalism, Politics, and the Law (with Mark Rozell); Children and the Law; and Justice Denied: What America Must Do to Protect Its Children. She is also the founder and CEO of CHILD USA, a nonprofit interdisciplinary think tank developing civil rights for children.

Inhaltsangabe

1. We have failed our children
2. What is wrong with the system
3. The solution is clear and simple: abolish the statutes of limitation for childhood sexual abuse
4. What it will take to act on the lessons learned
5. Barrier no. 1: the insurance industry
6. Barrier no. 2: the hierarchy of the Roman Catholic church
7. The other barriers: the teachers, the defense attorneys, and an uninformed public
Conclusion.