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The Deshaney Case: Child Abuse, Family Rights, and the Dilemma of State Intervention

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"Poor Joshua!" lamented Justice Harry Blackmun in his famous dissent. "Victim of repeated attacks by an irresponsible, bullying, obviously cowardly, and intemperate father, and abandoned by respondents who placed him in a dangerous predicament and who knew or learned what was going on, and yet did essentially nothing. . . ." Even so, the Supreme Court, by a 6-to-3 margin, absolved Wisconsin offici... More
Book Information
PublisherUniversity Press of Kansas
BindingHardcover (2 editions)
Reading LevelUncategorized
# of Pages164
ISBN-100700614966
ISBN-13978-0700614967
Publication Date03/2007
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About Lynne Curry (Author) : Lynne Curry is a published author. Published credits of Lynne Curry include The Deshaney Case: Child Abuse, Family Rights, and the Dilemma of State Intervention (Landmark Law Cases and American Societ... more
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