Child Rights and The Law

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Description
T.S. Eliot wrote about times when "we had the experience but missed the meaning." This aptly describes what has happened with policy initiatives for child and their welfare over the last period of years. By all appearances, this was a time when children and their needs were finally taken into consideration, when a flurry of new rights and services would lead to concrete improvements in child's treatment. More important, these developments would reduce the victimization that child suffered from both crime and the criminal process. 1 am of the view that the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child made affirmative contribution focusing the policy-lens towards the development and welfare of the child in many ways. Certainly it posed a challenge to what I then characterized as the dominant and dominating conceptual pair of socialization and development. In essence I argued that between them they represented childhood and children as natural, passive, incompetent and incomplete and in doing so foreclosed a series of important questions for theory and empirical research, framing the field with ideas which in other areas of social science were regarded as obsolete, outmoded or under-productive. In setting out the 'emergent paradigm' I suggested an alternative view which gathered together and focused more recent and innovative thinking: from interactional accounts. I drew on the notion of children as agents in, as well as products of, social processes and from the influence of social constructionist we emphasized the social, cultural and historical variability of childhood and its irreducibility to a given biological reality. The subject matter of child rights is being accepted more and more with each passing day. The first edition of the book, Child Rights and the Law was published in the year 2012. The book was well received and appreciated by the legal fraternity and other stake holders. To uphold the promise and admiration by the readers, I was duty bound to revise and update the book. Since the first edition was put into print there has been major developments in policies and laws relating to Child Rights. Furthermore, the Hon'ble Supreme Court in its pronouncements interpreted the existing laws and reviewed the enactments which were passed later.
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Contents
Chapter 1      Introduction
Chapter 2      Concept and Definition of Child, Child Rights and Child Abuse
Chapter 3      Child Rights Violation Within the Family
Chapter 4      Child Rights Violation by Guardians, Relatives and in Institutions
Chapter 5      Exploitation and Abuse of Children by Employers
Chapter 6      Child Right Violations by Strangers and Unfamiliar Persons
Chapter 7      Government Policy, Plans and Programmes for Child Welfare
Chapter 8      Legislative Measures for Child Rights Protection
Chapter 9      International Concern for Protecting Child Rights
Chapter 10    Judicial Approach Towards Child Rights Protection
Chapter 11    Conclusion and Suggestions
Subject Index
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