Table of Contents

PART I – PERSPECTIVES ON CHILDHOOD 1. Legal Concepts of Childhood: an Introduction Julia Fionda 2. Sociological Perspectives and Media Representations of Childhood Chris Jenks 3. Philosophical Perspectives on Childhood David Archard 4. Psychological and Psychiatric Perspectives Quentin Spender and Alexandra John PART II – THE CHILD IN LAW 5. Youth and Justice Julia Fionda 6. Children in Court Allan Levy KC 7. Law, Literature and the Child Ian Ward 8. Children Through Tort Roderick Bagshaw 9. The Medical Treatment of Children Penney Lewis 10. The Minor as (a) Subject: the Case of Housing Law David Cowan and Nick Dearden 11. The Child in Family Law Michael Freeman 12. Children’s Rights and Education Paul Meredith 13. Children and Social Security Law Nick Wikeley

About the Author

Julia Fionda is Senior Lecturer and Director of the Institute of Criminal Justice in the Law School at Southampton University.

Reviews

This publication provides a useful analysis of how our legal system views children. It will be of interest to all those involved with children in the legal system.
*ChildRIGHT*

The analyses presented here are accessible and, for readers who are unfamiliar with the law relating to children, they succeed in conveying some of the key shifts in thinking and policy that have taken place over the past two decades. The collection provides further evidence of the quality of the growing scholarship on children and the law.
*Children and Society*