Handbook of children's rights : global and multidisciplinary perspectives

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    • Ruck, Martin D.
    • Peterson-Badali, Michele

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Handbook of children's rights : global and multidisciplinary perspectives

edited by Martin D. Ruck, Michele Peterson-Badali, and Michael Freeman

Routledge, c2017

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While the notion of young people as individuals worthy or capable of having rights is of relatively recent origin, over the past several decades there has been a substantial increase in both social and political commitment to children's rights as well as a tendency to grant young people some of the rights that were typically accorded only to adults. In addition, there has been a noticeable shift in orientation from a focus on children's protection and provision to an emphasis on children's participation and self-determination. With contributions from a wide range of international scholars, the Handbook of Children's Rights brings together research, theory, and practice from diverse perspectives on children's rights. This volume constitutes a comprehensive treatment of critical perspectives concerning children's rights in their various forms. Its contributions address some of the major scholarly tensions and policy debates comprising the current discourse on children's rights, including the best interests of the child, evolving capacities of the child, states' rights versus children's rights, rights of children versus parental or family rights, children as citizens, children's rights versus children's responsibilities, and balancing protection and participation. In addition to its multidisciplinary focus, the handbook includes perspectives from social science domains in which children's rights scholarship has evolved largely independently due to distinct and seemingly competing assumptions and disciplinary approaches (e.g., childhood studies, developmental psychology, sociology of childhood, anthropology, and political science). The handbook also brings together diverse methodological approaches to the study of children's rights, including both quantitative and qualitative perspectives, and policy analysis. This comprehensive, cosmopolitan, and timely volume serves as an important reference for both scholarly and policy-driven interest in the voices and perspectives of children and youth.

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About the Editors Contributors Preface Martin D. Ruck, Michele Peterson-Badali, and Michael Freeman Part I. Historical and Contemporary Perspectives on Children's Rights and the CRC 1. History of Children's Rights Peter N. Stearns 2 Children's Rights and Women's Rights: Interrelated and Interdependent Jonathan Todres 3. Children's Rights: A framework to Eliminate Social Exclusion? Critical Discussions and Tensions Didier Reynaert and Rudi Roose 4. Fixed Concepts but Changing Conceptions: Understanding the Relationship Between Children and Parents under the CRC John Tobin 5. Children's Rights and Well-Being Asher Ben-Arieh and Noam Tarshish 6. The Convention on the Rights of the Child after Twenty-five Years: Challenges of Content and Implementation Ursula Kilkelly Part II. Social Science and Theoretical Perspectives on Children's Rights 7. Anthropological Perspectives on Children's Rights Heather Montgomery 8. Sociological Approaches to Children's Rights Virginia Morrow and Kirrily Pells 9. The Psychology of Children's Rights Charles C. Helwig and Elliot Turiel 10. Philosophical Perspectives on Children's Rights Rosalind Ekman Ladd 11. Realising Children's Economic and Social Rights: Towards Rights-Based Global Action Strategies Michael Nyongesa Wabwile 12. The Evolving Capacities of the Child: Neurodevelopment and Children's Rights Daniel P. Keating Part III. Children's Rights in Legal, Educational, Health Care and Other Settings 13. Health and Children's Rights Priscilla Alderson 14. The Right to Be Who You Are: Competing Tensions among Protection, Survival, and Participation Related to Youth Sexuality and Gender Stacey S. Horn, Christina Peter, and Stephen T. Russell 15. Progress toward Worldwide Recognition of the Child's Human Right to Dignity, Physical Integrity and Protection from Harm Bernadette J. Saunders 16. The Continuing Abuse and Neglect of Children Neerosh Mudaly and Chris Goddard 17. What Stands in the Way of Children's Exercise of their Criminal Procedural Rights in the United States? Our Evolving and Incomplete Interdisciplinary Understanding Emily Buss 18. Implementing Children's Education Rights in Schools Katherine Covell, R. Brian Howe, and Anne McGillivray 19. Children's Right to Play: From the Margins to the Middle Stuart Lester 20. Children with Psychiatric Disabilities: Bioethical and Genomic Dilemmas Maya Sabatello Part IV. Global Perspectives on Children's Rights 21. Children and Adolescents in Street Settings: Rights and Realities Marcela Raffaelli and Silvia H. Koller 22. Children's Education Rights: Global Perspectives Laura Lundy, Karen Orr, and Harry Shier 23. Governance and Children's Rights in Africa and Latin America: National and Transnational Constraints Richard Maclure 24. Independent Children's Rights Institutions Linda C. Reif 25. Children's Rights and Digital Technologies: Introduction to the Discourse and Some Meta-observations Urs Gasser and Sandra Cortesi 26. Working Children as Subjects of Rights: Explaining Children's Right to Work Manfred Liebel, Philip Meade, and Iven Saadi 27. Protection from Sexual Exploitation in the Convention on the Rights of the Child Elizabeth M. Saewyc 28. Child Soldiers: The Challenges and Opportunities in Addressing the Rights of Children Affected by War Myriam Denov and Andi Buccitelli Part V. Children's Rights in Action 29. Children's Right to Write: Young People's Participation as Producers of Children's Literature Rachel Conrad 30. Children's Free Association and the Collective Exercise of Their Rights Bijan Kimiagar and Roger Hart 31. Child Participation in Local Governance Meda Couzens 32. Children's Rights to Child-Friendly Cities Louise Chawla and Willem van Vliet 33 Visual Methods in Participatory Rights-Based Research with Children and Young People in Indonesia and Vanuatu Harriot Beazley 34. Child Rights and Practitioner Wrongs: Lessons from Interagency Research in Sierra Leone and Kenya Michael Wessells and Katherine Kostelny 35. Children's Voices about Children's Rights: Thoughts from Developmental Psychology Martin D. Ruck, Michele Peterson-Badali, Isabelle M. Elisha, and Harriet R. Tenenbaum Index

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