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Science in the Courtroom: Vital to Best Interests and Reasonable Efforts
Author(s) -
Lederman Judge Cindy
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
juvenile and family court journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.155
H-Index - 19
eISSN - 1755-6988
pISSN - 0161-7109
DOI - 10.1111/j.1755-6988.2009.01039.x
Subject(s) - center (category theory) , law , political science , criminology , child abuse , psychology , sociology , suicide prevention , poison control , medicine , medical emergency , chemistry , crystallography
This essay was adapted from a speech presented by the author on February 12, 2008 at a Colloquium entitled “What's Best for Children? How Judges Use Neuroscience to Break the Cycle of Child Maltreatment.” The colloquium was sponsored by the Harvard Center on the Developing Child and held at Harvard Law School. It focuses on the wealth of knowledge that has been discovered about infant and child development and the importance of incorporating that knowledge into judicial decision making in child maltreatment cases.