Handbook of children's rights : global and multidisciplinary perspectives / edited by Martin D. Ruck, Michele Peterson-Badali, and Michael Freeman.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Part I.Historical and contemporary perspectives on children's rights and the CRC -- 1.History of children's rights. Peter N. Stearns -- 2.Children's rights and women's rights: interrelated and interralatged and interdependent. Jonathan Todres -- 3.Children's rights: a framework to eliminate social exclusion? Critial discussions and tensions. Didier Reynaert and Rudi Roose -- 4.Fixed concepts but changing conceptions: understanding the relationship between children and parents under the CRC. John Tobin -- 5.Children's rights and well-being. Asher Ben-Arieh and Noam Tarshish -- 6.The convetion on the rights of the chidl after twenty-five years: challenges of content and implementation, Ursula Kilkelly -- Part II.Social science and theoretical perspectives on children's rights -- 7.Anthropological perspectives on children's rights. Heather Montgomery -- 8.Sociological approaches to children's rights. Virginia Morrow and Kirrily Pells -- 9.The psychology of children's rights. Charles C. Helwig and Elliot Turiel -- 10.Philosophical perspectives on children's rights. Rosalind Ekman Ladd -- 11.Realising children's economic and social rights: towards rights-based global action strategies. Michael Nyongesa Wabwile -- 12.The evolving capacities of the child: neurodevelopment and children's rights. Daniel P. Keating -- Part III.Children's rights in legal, educational, health care and other settings -- Part III.Children's rights in legal, educational, health care and other settings -- 13.Health and children's rights. Priscilla Alderson -- 14.The right to be who you are: competing tensions among protection, survival, and participation related to youth sexuality and gender. Stacey S. Horn, Christina Peter, and Stephen T. Russell -- 15.Progress toward worldwide recognition of the child's human right to dignity, physical integrity and protection from harm. Bernadette J. Saunders -- 16.The continuing abuse and neglect of children. Neeorsh Mudaly and Chris Goddard -- 17.What stands in the way of children's exercise of their criminal procedural rights in the United States? Our evolving and incomplete interdisciplinary understanding. Emily Buss -- 18.Implementing children's education rights in schools, Kataherine Covell, R. Brian Howe, and Anne McGillvray -- 19.Children's right to play: from the margins to the middle. Stuart Lester -- 20.Children with psychiatric disabilities: bioethical and genomic dilemmas. Maya Sabatello -- Part IV.Global perspectives on children's rights -- 21.Children and adolescents in street settings: rights and realities. Marcela Raffaelli and Silvia H. Koller -- 22.Children's education rights: global perspectives. Laura Lundy, Karen Orr, and Harry Shier -- 23.Governance and children's rights in Africa and Latin America: national and transnational constraints. Richard Maclure -- 24.Independent children's rights institutions. Linda C. Reif -- 25.Children's rights and digital technologies: introduction to the discourse and some meta-observations. Urs Gasser and Sandra Cortesi -- 26.Working children as subjects of rights: explaining children's right to work. Manfred Liebel, Philip Meade, and Iven Saadi -- 27.Protection from sexual exploitation in the convention on the rights of the child. Elizabeth M. Saewyc -- 28.Child soldiers: the challenges and opportunities in addressing the rights of children affected by war. Myriam Denov and Andie Buccitelli -- Part V.Children's rights in action -- 29.Childrens' rights to write: young people's participation as production of children's literature. Rachel Conrad -- 30.Children's free assocation and the collective exercise of their rights. Bijan Kimiagar and Roger Hart -- 31.Child participation in local governance. Meda Couzens -- 32.Children's rights to child-friendly cities. Louise Chawla and Willem van Vliet -- 33.Visual methods in participatory rights-based research with children and young people in Indonesia and Vanuatu. Harriot Beazley -- 34.Child rights and practitioner wrongs: lessons from interagency research in Sierra Leone and Kenya. Michael Wessells and Kathleen Kostelny -- 35.Children's voices about children's rights: thoughts form development psychology. Martin D. Ruck, Michele Peterson-Badali, Isabelle M. Elisha, and Harriet R. Tenenbaum.

While the notion of young people as individuals worthy or capable of having rights is of relatively recent origin, over the past several decades there has been a substantial increase in both social and political commitment to children's rights as well as a tendency to grant young people some of the rights that were typically accorded only to adults. In addition, there has been a noticeable shift in orientation from a focus on children's protection and provision to an emphasis on children's participation and self-determination. With contributions from a wide range of international scholars, this book brings together research, theory, and practice from diverse perspectives on children's rights.