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Navigating Ambiguity: Considerations When Making Decisions on Out‐Of‐Home Placement of Siblings
Child &Family Social Work, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Policy‐makers and professionals recognize the importance of relationships between children and their family system and between children and their siblings in out‐of‐home placement. However, it is not always possible to keep siblings together; separation may be necessary for the child's normal development and even to protect the child's well ...
Vered Shenar‐Golan +2 more
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Social Work and Society, 2017 This article presents legal regulations, policy and practice, as well as qualitative research, on several aspects of the implementation of the rights and living conditions of unaccompanied asylum-seeking minors (UAM) in Norway.
Hilde Lidén +2 more
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Child &Family Social Work, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article presents selected results on transnational social work with unaccompanied minors' (UMs) parents abroad. For the purpose of this study, the perspectives of 20 social workers and pedagogical staff who work in various residential care settings in Germany are highlighted.
Franziska Anna Seidel
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The Voice of a Reference Group in Research With Children
Children &Society, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The aim was to describe how inclusive research was perceived by participants in a reference group within the Swedish research programme Mental Health and Participation in Habilitation for Children and Adolescents with Disabilities. The experience of the reference group was explored through 10 interviews analysed with thematic analysis.
Malin Stensson +3 more
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Elite persistence in family: The role of adoption in prewar Japan
The Economic History Review, EarlyView.Abstract Why do elite families often maintain their social and economic status across generations? This paper examines the role of adoption in sustaining elite persistence in prewar Japan. Under the Japanese inheritance system, families without a biological son could adopt an heir to continue the family lineage and transfer assets and social status ...
Hiroshi Kumanomido, Yutaro Takayasu
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The Howard Journal of Crime and Justice, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article provides one of the first broad reviews of global research on public opinion regarding the age of criminal responsibility (ACR) alongside findings from a small‐scale exploratory survey of adults in England and Wales. Reviewed studies show strong support for raising the ACR across regions like Scotland, Australia, Hong Kong and ...
Harriet Pierpoint, Kathy Hampson
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The Howard Journal of Crime and Justice, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In this article, we address the hitherto neglected question of how sentencers and other professional actors in the criminal courts think about the legitimacy of probation services. We deploy a framework from the organisational studies literature, which suggests three dimensions of legitimacy that organisations seek from their stakeholders ...
Gwen Robinson +4 more
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The Howard Journal of Crime and Justice, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Current legislation and safeguarding principles are bound by narrow and inflexible constructions of childhood and adulthood. The criminal age of responsibility in England and Wales has been criticised for the responsibilisation of children from age 10 years.
Jayne Price
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Randomly Albright: The End of Judge Shopping in the Western District of Texas?
Journal of Empirical Legal Studies, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Because judges exercise discretion in how they handle and decide cases, heterogeneity across judges can affect case outcomes and, thus, preferences among litigants for particular judges. However, selection obscures the causal mechanisms that drive these preferences.
Christian Helmers +2 more
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Vernacularizing the Best Interests of the Child: Comparative Insights From Three Legal Systems
Journal of Family Theory &Review, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The study investigates how the Best Interests of the Child principle in the UN Children's Rights Convention (Article 3) has been adapted in custody disputes in Egypt, Sweden, and Uzbekistan. Although the Convention on the Rights of the Child offers a common normative benchmark, divergent legal cultures shape its domestic meaning: Egypt is ...
Anna Lundberg +3 more
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