Drawing on original research, this book provides a major critique of contemporary child protection research, policy and practice. In particular, it challenges c

This volume adopts a context-informed framework exploring risk, maltreatment, well-being and protection of children in diverse groups in Israel. It incorporates

This book examines how child protection law has been shaped by the transition to late modernity and how it copes with the ever-changing concept of risk. The boo

This account of six families whose children were wrongly seized by child protection services vividly illustrates the constitutional balancing act where medicine

Adolescents obviously do not always act in ways that serve their own best interests, even as defined by them. Sometimes their perception of their own risks, eve