{"id":343,"date":"2020-01-02T20:01:50","date_gmt":"2020-01-02T20:01:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fs.wp.odu.edu\/llombard\/?p=343"},"modified":"2020-01-11T15:11:02","modified_gmt":"2020-01-11T15:11:02","slug":"law-reform-child-maltreatment-and-the-un-convention-on-the-rights-of-the-child","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fs.wp.odu.edu\/llombard\/2020\/01\/02\/law-reform-child-maltreatment-and-the-un-convention-on-the-rights-of-the-child\/","title":{"rendered":"Law Reform, Child Maltreatment and the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child &#8211; 2016 (Co-Authored with Karen A. Polonko and Ian Bolling)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-file\"><a href=\"https:\/\/fs.wp.odu.edu\/llombard\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2205\/2020\/01\/CHIL_024_01_Polonko_etal-2-CRC-and-Law-Reform.pdf\">CHIL_024_01_Polonko_etal-2-CRC-and-Law-Reform<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/fs.wp.odu.edu\/llombard\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2205\/2020\/01\/CHIL_024_01_Polonko_etal-2-CRC-and-Law-Reform.pdf\" class=\"wp-block-file__button\" download>Download<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>THE INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CHILDREN\u2019S RIGHTS<\/strong> &#8220;Law Reform, Child Maltreatment and the U.N. Convention on the Rights of the Child&#8221;, <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Karen A. Polonko, PhD; Old Dominion University, Norfolk VA, USA; kpolonko@odu.edu; Lucien X. Lombardo, PhD. Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA,USA, llombard@odu.edu; Ian Bolling, MA, JD, Tidewater Community College, Norfolk, VA USA, ibolling@odu.edu<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Abstract<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Scholars and practitioners stress the need for systematic research on the implementation of the un Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) and its potential impact on children\u2019s rights. Our study focused on one aspect of implementation \u2013 law reform. Drawing primarily on reports to the CRC Committee for 179 countries, results show for most countries, implementation is limited and focused far more on child-welfare than child-rights based legislation. The relationship of measures of law reform\/legal regime (most notably, the existence of customary law and laws banning corporal punishment)to children\u2019s experience of rights, child physical abuse and mortality, is analysed and theoretically grounded.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"excerpt\">THE INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CHILDREN\u2019S RIGHTS &#8220;Law Reform, Child Maltreatment and the U.N. Convention on the Rights of the Child&#8221;, Karen A. Polonko, PhD; Old Dominion University, Norfolk VA, USA; kpolonko@odu.edu; Lucien X. Lombardo, PhD. Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA,USA, llombard@odu.edu; Ian Bolling, MA, JD, Tidewater Community College, Norfolk, VA USA, ibolling@odu.edu Abstract Scholars and practitioners stress the need for&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/fs.wp.odu.edu\/llombard\/2020\/01\/02\/law-reform-child-maltreatment-and-the-un-convention-on-the-rights-of-the-child\/\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4243,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wds_primary_category":0},"categories":[27,34,22,24,25],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fs.wp.odu.edu\/llombard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fs.wp.odu.edu\/llombard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fs.wp.odu.edu\/llombard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fs.wp.odu.edu\/llombard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4243"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fs.wp.odu.edu\/llombard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=343"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/fs.wp.odu.edu\/llombard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":415,"href":"https:\/\/fs.wp.odu.edu\/llombard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343\/revisions\/415"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fs.wp.odu.edu\/llombard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fs.wp.odu.edu\/llombard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fs.wp.odu.edu\/llombard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}