International Human Rights and Children’s RightsOne of the most important ways in which the United Nations fosters the development and strengthening of international human rights law is through the adoption of treaties and conventions such as ...

Children Criminal ResponsibilityIdeological changes in cultural conceptions of children and in strategies of social control during the nineteenth century led to the creation of the juvenile court in 1899. The juvenile court reform movement removed ...

Contract LawDisputes arising in connection with contracts take a bewildering variety of forms. If we adopt a broad concept of dispute, so that it includes all kinds of grievances and disagreements, as well as more formal claims and counterclaims, ...

Death in TexasWith more than a million-and-a-half of Americans actually in prison, many thousands of them for murder, the question of who is punished and what the punishment for murder should be is a social and political issue in addition to being a ...

Miranda Law AnalysisInvestigators must read the familiar Miranda warnings to every arrested suspect for a confession to be used as evidence, affirming the Warren court’s landmark 1966 decision. “Miranda has become embedded in routine ...

Sexual Harassment at the University of ColoradoThe Supreme Court of the United States confirmed that student-to-student harassment is prohibited by Title IX, the law that prohibits sex discrimination in schools, colleges and universities receiving ...

Sovereignty AnalysisThe concept of sovereignty has been used by sociologists, international lawyers, and political scientists, but not always with the same meaning. For sociologists sovereignty offers a script, a shared cognitive map that ...

Mexican ID cards carry legal perils; an identification card issued by the Mexican government to its citizens living illegally in the United States exposes local and state officials here to civil and criminal liability. (The nation: illegal ...

Preventing the(violent)Child Abuse Cycle: This paper summarizes the causes and adult effects of child abuse and suggests ways to prevent the cycle. The complex interrelated issues of child abuse and future adult repetition of childhood patterns is ...