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Showing 1 to 20 of 217 for “"Custody"”.
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Parental Alienation in Quebec Custody Litigation
This thesis is a study of all Quebec custody cases dealing with parental alienation in 2016. It explores the definitions, findings, and implications of parental alienation in legal disputes, in light of the models of parental alienation and parental alienation syndrome described in the academic …
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Parent Perceptions and Experiences in Child Custody Decision-Making
… and empowerment to illustrate that, within child custody decision-making, one‟s capacity for power is affected not just by scope and significance, as suggested by Lukes (2005), but also by the level of conflict and experience of violence. Viewing the findings from this lens provides another …
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Law, state and the family : the politics of child custody.
Law State and the Family: the Politics of Child Custody is an examination of the development of law and legal practices in relation to mothers and the legal custody of children. It maps the history of statute law and re-reads legal practice focusing upon the way in which these practices reproduce …
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Legal professionals' perception of critical information in child custody disputes
… used by legal professionals when making a child custody recommendation decision in Virginia.
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Deaths in police custody in the Cape Town Western Metropole 2000-2009
Deaths in police custody are a global phenomenon which continues to beset policing services worldwide. Research into these deaths has provided insight into the complexity of detention and led to the institution of preventative strategies which have seen a reduction in mortality internationally. An …
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The role of the mental health practitioner in divorce and custody litigation
… standard used by the courts for arriving at custody/access settlements and a detailed discussion of the role played by the mental health professional at each stage of the dissolution process. The roles explored here include that of counsellor and facilitator in the pre-divorce, mediation and …
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The pains of custody: how young men cope through the criminal justice system
… Parva YOI and 10 young men held at three court custody suites. Alongside these, an activity analysis of the custody process was completed at four police custody suites. Interviewees’ narratives demonstrated that the five pains of imprisonment identified by Sykes (1958) are applicable to today’s …
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An Empirical Determination of the Competence of Children to Participate in Child Custody Decision-Making
… the age of 14 incompetent to participate in custody decisions despite the far-reaching impact of such decisions on their lives. Although the majority of state statutes now require the court to solicit the child's preference before rendering a custody decision, they fail to provide adequate, …
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Legal Requirements of Custody: A Comparative Study between the United States and Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
<p>Child custody is an area of civil law that is often contested. The Saudi legal system and the American legal system are fundamentally different, although, they both treat custody as a very important matter. Among one of the distinctions is that in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, a custodial dispute …
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Towards being heard : representations of the child's voice in custody evaluation reports by the Family Advocate's Office
… participate in family law matters, specifically custody disputes, and if so, how this participation should take place. It also drew upon research studies which have explored directly children's views on the issue. The challenges involved in custody evaluations were scrutinised, specifically in …
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Towards being heard : representations of the child's voice in custody evaluation reports by the Family Advocate's Office.
… participate in family law matters, specifically custody disputes, and if so, how this participation should take place. It also drew upon research studies which have explored directly children’s views on the issue. The challenges involved in custody evaluations were scrutinised, specifically in …
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Custody, care and criminality: clinical aspects of forensic psychiatric institutionalisation in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Ireland
Ireland experienced a rapid rise in psychiatric committals in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. While there have been (limited) explorations of selected aspects of the social, institutional and legislative factors underlying this phenomenon, there is a paucity of literature relating to …
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Open justice and investigations into deaths at the hands of the police, or in police or prison custody
… the hands of the police, or in police or prison custody to scrutiny in order to frame a context-specific conception of open justice in the aftermath of such deaths. The focus of the thesis is police and PPO investigations into deaths in prisons, IPCC investigations into deaths involving the …
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An explorative study of false allegations of child sexual abuse in divorce and custody proceedings in South Africa
… child sexual abuse allegations in divorce and custody proceedings are a disconcerting problem in South Africa having devastating effects on the family unit going through a divorce, and on society as a whole. Limited research has been done in South Africa on the subject matter (Janse Van …
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The Best Interests of the Child in Custody Evaluations: An Explication of the Construct and Preliminary Content Validation Study
… States, ten percent of which require a child custody evaluation. Approximately 100,000 child custody evaluations are conducted annually (Bow, 2006). Despite the fact that these evaluations affect the lives of thousands of children and parents every year, there is very little research and few …
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Policing madness : a case study analysis of the management of mental illness in custody settings in England and Wales
… examining the management of mental distress in custody settings, is that these policies have led to an increased role for the police in responding to people with mental health problems experiencing a crisis. Analysis of the combined results arising from the empirical studies carried out with …
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