Justice Denied - Hamilton, Marci A.
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There is a silent epidemic of childhood sexual abuse in the United States and a legal system that is not effectively protecting children from predators. Recent coverage of widespread abuse in the public schools and in churches has brought the once-taboo subject of childhood sexual abuse to the forefront. The problem extends well beyond schools and churches, though: the vast majority of survivors are sexually abused by family or family acquaintances with 90 percent of abuse never reported to the authorities. Marci A. Hamilton proposes a comprehensive yet simple solution: eliminate the arbitrary…mehr

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There is a silent epidemic of childhood sexual abuse in the United States and a legal system that is not effectively protecting children from predators. Recent coverage of widespread abuse in the public schools and in churches has brought the once-taboo subject of childhood sexual abuse to the forefront. The problem extends well beyond schools and churches, though: the vast majority of survivors are sexually abused by family or family acquaintances with 90 percent of abuse never reported to the authorities. Marci A. Hamilton proposes a comprehensive yet simple solution: eliminate the arbitrary statutes of limitations for childhood sexual abuse so that survivors past and present can get into court. In Justice Denied, Hamilton predicts a coming civil rights movement for children and explains why it is in the interest of all Americans to allow victims of childhood sexual abuse this chance to seek justice when they are ready.
Autorenporträt
Marci A. Hamilton is Professor of Practice in the Department of Political Science and Fox Family Pavilion Non-resident Senior Fellow in the Program for Research on Religion at the University of Pennsylvania. She holds master's degrees in philosophy and English from Pennsylvania State University and a J.D. from the University of Pennsylvania School of Law, where she served as editor-in-chief of the University of Pennsylvania Law Review. She clerked for United States Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor. Hamilton is the author of God vs. the Gavel: The Perils of Extreme Religious Liberty, Fundamentalism, Politics, and the Law (with Mark Rozell); Children and the Law; and Justice Denied: What America Must Do to Protect Its Children. She is also the founder and CEO of CHILD USA, a nonprofit interdisciplinary think tank developing civil rights for children.