OF INNOCENCE AND AUTONOMY
This collection is dedicated to Henry Steiner and Martha Minow paving the way for a new generation.
Programme on International Rights of the Child
Series Editor: Geraldine Van Bueren
Titles in the Series:
Childrens Rights and Traditional Values
Edited by Gillian Douglas and Leslie Sebba
Monitoring Childrens Rights
Judith Ennew
The Right of the Child to a Clean Environment
Edited by Agata Fijalkowski and Malgosia Fitzmaurice
Cultural Pluralism and the Rights of the Child
Michael Freeman
Of Innocence and Autonomy
Children, sex and human rights
Edited by Eric Heinze
The Human Right to Education
Douglas Hodgson
The Child and the European Convention on Human Rights
Ursula Kilkelly
Legal Secrets, Cultural and Scientific Truths
Personality rights under the Convention on the Rights of the Child
Katherine ODonovan
Childhood Abused
Protecting children against torture, cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment and punishment
Edited by Geraldine Van Bueren
Of Innocence and Autonomy
Children, sex and human rights
Edited by
ERIC HEINZE
Queen Mary and Westfield College, University of London
With a Foreword by Katherine ODonovan
First published 2000 by Dartmouth Publishing Company and Ashgate Publishing
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Contents
by Katherine ODonovan
Eric Heinze
Christine Piper
Margherita Rendel
Margherita Rendel
Bill Bowring
Chris Barton
Elena Loizidou
Janet L. Mullings, Victoria E. Brewer & James W. Marquart
Corinne Packer
Daniel Monk
Catherine Downs & Stephen Whittle
Chris Bartonis Professor of Family Law and Director of the Centre for the Study of the Family, Law & Social Policy at Staffordshire University.
Bill Bowringis Reader in Human Rights Law and Director of the Pan-European Institute, University of Essex.
Victoria E. Breweris Assistant Professor in the College of Criminal Justice, Sam Houston State University.
Catherine Downsis Senior Lecturer in Law at Manchester Metropolitan University.
Eric Heinzeis Lecturer in Law at Queen Mary and Westfield College, University of London.
Elena Loizidouis Lecturer in Law, Birkbeck College, University of London.
James W. Marquartis Professor in the College of Criminal Justice, Sam Houston State University.
Daniel Monkis Lecturer in Law, Keele University.
Janet L. Mullingsis Assistant Professor in the College of Criminal Justice, Sam Houston State University.
Corinne Packer,a Consultant for The Themis Foundation, has been a Consultant for the World Health Organisation, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, and the Council of Europe.
Christine Piperis Senior Lecturer in Law and Associate Director of the Centre for the Study of Law, the Child and the Family at Brunei University.
Margherita Rendelis Reader Emerita in Human Rights and Education, University of London.
Stephen Whittleis Senior Lecturer in Law at Manchester Metropolitan University.
AACAP | American Academy of Child Adolescent Psychiatry |
AC | Appeal Cases (UK) |
AER | All England Law Reports |
AJP | American Journal of Psychiatry |
AJPH | American Journal of Public Health |
BJES | British Journal of Educational Studies |
BJS | British Journal of Sociology |
BMJ | British Medical Journal |
BMLR | Butterworths Medico-Legal Reports |
CD | Crime and Delinquency |
CFLQ | Child and Family Law Quarterly |
CJB | Criminal Justice and Behaviour |
CLR | Criminal Law Review |
CJBS | Canadian Journal of Behavioural Science |
CJE | Cambridge Journal of Education |
CS | Children and Society |
EL | Education and the Law |
ES | Economy and Society |
Eur. Commn H. R. DR | Decisions and Reports of the European Commission of Human Rights |
Eur. Ct. H. R. | Publications of the European Court of Human Rights |
FCH | Family and Community Health |
FLR | Family Law Reports |
FF | Foster and Finlaysons Reports |
FLR | Family Law Reports |
FR | Feminist Review |
HRQ | Human Rights Quarterly |
IJCR | The International Journal of Childrens Rights |
IJA | The International Journal of Addictions |
ILM | International Legal Materials |
ILO OB | Official Bulletin of the International Labour Organisation |
JAMWA | Journal of the American Medical Womens Association |