This guide provides informational resources for minors who have been accused of or who have committed a crime.
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These resources contain information on juvenile justice.
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Soler's resource provides counsel who represent youth with a detailed overview of children's rights and the statutory and case law relating to legal matters involving children. Topics range from school disciplinary matters to child witnesses and even health-care for low-income children.
The authors believe that children involved in court proceedings need to clearly understand what is being asked of them and they have the right to be clearly understood. Language can get in the way of communication between adults. Communicating with children presents additional linguistic challenges. Questioning children demands a great deal of patience and an understanding of the communication issues presented by a child’s developmental stage and their individual facility with language. This 3rd edition of the Handbook on Questioning Children reflects new research findings and additional years of practical experience interviewing children.
This two-volume set provides in-depth information on juvenile law in Texas including information on changes to the laws addressing child abuse and neglect cases. The first volume of this pair focuses on delinquent children and children in need of supervision first providing a summary of current laws, then a discussion on how to prosecute or defend cases of juvenile delinquency and children in need of supervision. The second volume discusses the state’s intervention into the parent-child relationship, first providing a summary of the law, then discussing to how prosecute child abuse and child neglect cases, then defending parents in these cases.
This publication adheres strictly to its title. The text is geared to exclusively to defense attorneys. The authors do not try to examine juvenile law from the prosecution’s perspectives. It is a manual in the sense it eschews theory and provides practical guidance from taking on a juvenile case through the possible resolutions. The book’s chapters follow the usual sequence of events in a juvenile case. Rather than referring you elsewhere in the book, they repeat information as needed relating it to topic at hand. Practical advice is given on working with the clients, their parents and the court system so you can provide the best advocacy possible to ensure the best outcome for the child.
