Ruck / Peterson-Badali / Freeman Handbook of Children's Rights

Global and Multidisciplinary Perspectives
Erscheinungsjahr 2016
ISBN: 978-1-317-66003-3
Verlag: CRC Press
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 640 Seiten

While the notion of young people as individuals worthy of rights and freedoms 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, including those rights that, in the past, were typically only accorded to adults. Contemporary thinking about children’s rights is marked by a tension between the founding focus on children’s protection and the emergent emphasis on children’s participation and self-determination. This tension at the heart of all modern conceptualizations of children’s rights precludes any simple consensus in the field, and a single, up-to-date collection that covers the major issues and policy debates that comprise the current discourse is desperately needed. The International Handbook of Children’s Rights finally meets this need.

The Handbook contains six sections ranging from a section on historical and contemporary perspectives of children’s rights and the United Nations Convention of the Rights of the Child (CRC), to a section on the global perspectives on children’s rights, to a section on children’s own voices and perspectives. It features a fantastic mix of over 50 children’s rights experts from over a dozen countries from five continents, including Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, North America, and South America. The Handbook goes beyond conventional coverage of the CRC to delve deeply into the key issues and debates surrounding children’s rights, including:

- the best interests of the child

- the evolving capacities of the child

- states’ rights versus children’s rights

- children’s rights versus parental or family rights

- children as citizens

- children’s rights versus children’s responsibilities

- the balance between protection and participation

There is no volume like this one in its multidisciplinarity, its international range, its inclusion of both the qualitative and quantitative, or its steady attention to policy and practice as well as to theory and empirical evidence. The International Handbook of Children’s Rights is an indispensible resource for researchers, professionals, policy-makers, NGOs, and graduate and advanced undergraduate students, as well as anyone else keenly interested in the growing research and scholarship on children’s rights.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Ruck, Martin D.

Peterson-Badali, Michele

Freeman, Michael

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Allgemeine Psychologie Entwicklungspsychologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface. Introduction and Overview Martin Ruck, Michele Peterson-Badali and Michael Freeman Part I. Historical and Contemporary Perspectives on Children’s Rights and the CRC 1. Children’s Agency Michael Freeman 2. The Convention on the Rights of the Child 25 Years: Challenges Of Content and Implementation Ursula Kilkelly 3. Questioning Children’s Rights Didier Reynaert & Rudi Roose 4. Best Interests of the Child Michael Freeman 5. Women’s Rights and Children’s Rights Jonathan Todres. 6. History of Children’s Rights Peter Stearns Part II: Social Science and Theoretical Perspectives on Children’s Rights 7. Anthropological Perspectives on Children’s Rights Heather Montgomery 8. Sociological Approaches Virginia Morrow and Kirrily Pells 9. Psychological Perspectives Charles Helwig, Elliott Turiel 10. Children’s Right to Write: Young People’s Participation as Producers of Children’s Literature Rachel Conrad 11. Philosophical Perspectives on Children’s Rights Rosalind Ekman Ladd 12. Children’s Rights and the Evolving Capacities of the Child: A Developmental Neuroscience Perspective Daniel P. Keating 13. Realizing Children’s Economic and Social Rights: Towards rights-based global action strategies Michael Wabwile Part III: Children’s Rights in Legal, Educational, Health Care and Other Settings 14: Beyond the White Picket Fence: The Status of the Family under the Convention John Tobin 15. Children’s Rights and Education Laura Lundy 16. Health and Children’s Rights Priscilla Alderson 17. Bioethical Dilemmas – Children with Disabilities Maya Sabatello 18. The Right to be Who You Are: Competing Tensions among Regulation, Protection, and Self-Determination for Youth Related to Gender and Sexuality Stacey Horn, Stephen Russell 19. Progress Toward Worldwide Recognition of the Child’s Human Right to Physical Integrity and Protection from Humiliating and Degrading Treatment Bernadette Saunders 20. The Continuing Abuse and Neglect of Children Neerosh Mudaly and Chris Goddard 21. Children’s Right to Play: From the Margins to the Middle Stuart Lester Part IV: Global perspectives on children’s rights 22. Children in Street Settings: Rights and Realities Marcela Raffaelli, Silvia Koller 23. Children’s Rights in Sub-Saharan Africa and Latin America Richard Maclure 24. Right to Life, Survival and Development Yanghee Lee 25. Children's Rights and Information and Communications Technology (ICT) Urs Gasser and Sandra Cortesi 26. Protection from Sexual Exploitation in the Convention and Optional Protocols Elizabeth Saewyc 27. Working Children as Subjects of Rights Manfred Liebel, Philip Meade, and Iven Saadi 28. The rights of child soldiers by Myriam Denov Part V: Children’s rights in action 29. Children’s Right to Participation: Support from Research and Educational Programs Felisa Tibbitts, Judith Torney-Purta 30. The Article 15 Project and Capacities of Children and Youth Around the World to Self-Organize and Fulfill Their Rights Roger Hart, Bijan Kimiagar & Scott Fisher 31. Child Participation in Local Governance Meda Couzens 32. The Ombudsperson for Children Linda C. Reif 33. Strong Communities as protectors of children’s right to personal Robin Kimbrough-Melton and Gary Melton 34. Child Friendly Cities Louise Chawla 35. Challenges in Implementing Child Rights: Lessons from Inter-Agency Action Research in Sierra Leone and Kenya Michael Wessells and Kathleen Kostelny Part VI: Children’s own voices and perspectives 36. Children’s Rights and Well-Being by Asher Ben-Arieh and Hanita Kosher 37. Young People’s Criminal Justice Rights; Scope, Understanding, and Exercise Emily Buss 38. Children’s Attitudes and Knowledge About Their Protection and Participation Rights Martin Ruck, Michele Peterson-Badali, Harriet Tenenbaum, Isabelle M. Elisha 39. Rights-Respecting Schools by Katherine Covell, Brian Howe, Anne McGillivray