March 9, 2007
'The "DeShaney" Case: Child Abuse, Family Rights, and the Dilemma of State Intervention'
Intricate questions of constitutional law can be riveting. So riveting, in fact, that we may forget the people central to a ruling. That's something Lynne Curry wanted to avoid in The "DeShaney" Case: Child Abuse, Family Rights, and the Dilemma of State Intervention (University Press of Kansas).
Her study of DeShaney v. Winnebago County Department of Social Services combines an analysis of the landmark U.S. Supreme Court case with an account of the battered child at its center. In a
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