The Role of the Family Court of Australia in Child Welfare Matters

1992 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-47 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Seymour
Keyword(s):  
Child Welfare ◽  
Family Court ◽  
The Family

The Importance of Race in Juvenile Commitment in the New Jersey Family Court

2016 ◽  
Vol 63 (3) ◽  
pp. 353-372 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Holleran ◽  
Bruce D. Stout
Keyword(s):  
New Jersey ◽  
Information Gain ◽  
Class Imbalance ◽  
Important Variable ◽  
Family Court ◽  
Misclassification Error ◽  
The Family ◽  
Dependent Variables ◽  
Imbalanced Classes

In this study, we examine how important juvenile race and other factors are in juvenile commitment classification in the New Jersey Family Court. Data from the Family Court in New Jersey for the year 2010 comprise the population. Given the class imbalance in the dependent variable, we employ balanced random forest (RF). Variable importance plots and an information gain summary are used to assess the role of the juvenile’s race and other variables for classes of the dependent variable. The results from balanced RF indicate that the juvenile’s delinquency history and the offense seriousness make the most important contributions to commitment to juvenile state incarceration. The juvenile’s race makes a very weak contribution to commitment; in fact, when the balanced RF was rerun with the juvenile’s race omitted, the estimated misclassification error slightly dropped for commitments. Balanced RF is an attractive procedure for handling dependent variables with highly imbalanced classes. The juvenile’s adjudication history and offense seriousness emerged as the most important variables to state incarceration. The race of the juvenile was not an important variable with respect to commitment.

ROLE OF THE COURTS

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1973 ◽  
Vol 51 (4) ◽  
pp. 796-798
Author(s):  
Florence M. Kelley
Keyword(s):  
Social Work ◽  
Juvenile Court ◽  
Family Court ◽  
Court System ◽  
The Family ◽  
Long Time ◽  
Neglected Children ◽  
Abused And Neglected Children ◽  
As If

It is important to know what the courts can do and cannot do in the area of abused and neglected children. Often the Family Court is listed as an agency. It is not an agency. It is part of the court system. Its operation is circumscribed by the concept of being a real court. For a long time there was a theory that the Family Court or Juvenile Court could be a kind of social work oriented operation, not quite a real court, not truly a social work agency. This concept has been abandoned. The Family Court is a court of record and is in all aspects a court. It is dependent in the action it takes on evidence which must conform to strict rules that are laid down. It is an adversary proceeding. It is not enough to produce a child that looks as if it has been beaten. A judge in the Family Court also has before him the person who may be charged with having beaten the child. That person, be it a parent or guardian, is entitled to counsel, to help in his defense. The adversary process then takes place. Persons bring forth evidence to show that the parent did abuse the child. The parent is enabled under the court system to bring forth before the judge evidence that he or she did not do it. It is then up to the judge to give this evidence due weight and make a decision as to whether or not the allegations have been proven.

1. Introduction to Family Law

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sonia Harris-Short ◽  
Joanna Miles ◽  
Rob George
Keyword(s):  
Family Law ◽  
State Intervention ◽  
Family Court ◽  
Sex And Gender ◽  
Private Ordering ◽  
The Family ◽  
Rules Versus Discretion ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Academic Debate

All books in this flagship series contain carefully selected substantial extracts from key cases, legislation, and academic debate, providing able students with a stand-alone resource. This chapter begins with an overview of families and family law in England and Wales today. It then discusses themes and issues in contemporary family law, covering rules versus discretion; women’s and men’s perspectives on family law; sex and gender identity; sexual orientation; cultural diversity; and state intervention versus private ordering, including the role of the family court and of non-court dispute resolution in family cases.

The Role of the Family Court in Medical Procedure Cases

1996 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 242-261 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alastair Nicholson ◽  
Margaret Harrison ◽  
Danny Sandor
Keyword(s):  
Family Court ◽  
Medical Procedure ◽  
The Family

The Pediatrician's Role in Helping Children and Families Deal with Separation and Divorce

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1995 ◽  
Vol 95 (2) ◽  
pp. 318-319
Author(s):  
Bernard A. Yablin
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Child Development ◽  
American Academy ◽  
Family Court ◽  
Adjustment Process ◽  
Court System ◽  
Children And Families ◽  
American Academy Of Pediatrics ◽  
The Family

The Psychosocial Committee is to be commended for its report on the pediatrician and divorce in the July issue of Pediatrics. I would like to add the following: The role of the pediatrician should extend well beyond the divorce and immediate adjustment process. Firstly, there should be greater involvement between both the pediatrician and the Family Court system to help prevent misplacement of the child in custody decisions. (I believe that various groups within the American Academy of Pediatrics are already working with judicial/legal groups to bring to them a greater knowledge of child development and mental health).

scholarly journals AN INDISPENSABLE ROLE OF COUNSELOR: THE BRIDGE BETWEEN COUPLES, STAKEHOLDERS AND RECONCILIATION FOR MARITAL DISPUTES

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (66) ◽  
pp. 15376-15382
Author(s):  
Vandana Uday Shinde
Keyword(s):  
Problem Solving ◽  
Family Court ◽  
Counselor Educator ◽  
Root Cause ◽  
The Family ◽  
Marital Disputes ◽  
Problem Solving Process ◽  
The Stability ◽  
Primary Unit

The family is universally regarded as the primary unit of society and family tend to be very close knit. When the stability, faith and confidence of the members of the family are threatened by a dispute, people mostly approach to the elders of the family or other authority who has influence or NGOs. If it doesn’t settle there they approach to the arms of judiciary like police or court to stop the dispute or secure their right within the family. While working in the family court witnessed and intervened in such cases regularly. Counselors in family court are the key persons as every case filed in the family court are directed to counselors for amicable settlement. The counselors are helping couples realize the root cause of their problem and engaging them in the problem solving process by intervening as counselor, educator, mentor, mediator, negotiator, conciliator, facilitator, etc. Once the rapport is built then they act as friend and philosopher to the couple.

scholarly journals Amendments to the treatment regulations at a psychiatric hospital as the element shaping culture in terms of human rights

2017 ◽  
Vol 127 (3) ◽  
pp. 140-142
Author(s):  
Błażej Kmieciak
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Psychiatric Hospital ◽  
Mental Illnesses ◽  
Family Court ◽  
Psychotic Symptoms ◽  
Dangerous Behavior ◽  
The Family ◽  
Anxiety And Fear ◽  
Similar Issue

Abstract A psychiatric hospital is a special place. People undergoing treatment are in a unique situation. Mental illness remains a mystery for scientists because we do not know what factors influence its appearance. There were also no drugs that would completely cure the patient, as you never know whether the medicine will affect a particular person. Mental illnesses evoke anxiety and fear of the community. Some patients take disturbing or dangerous actions. Their behaviors are referred to as specific and different ones. A similar situation is caused by the appearance of psychotic symptoms. One should pay attention to delusions and hallucinations here. These symptoms cause the patient’s situation to deteriorate. Ultimately, they can cause dangerous behavior. It happens that a relative of a patient, who is in such condition, must take action without his/her consent. A similar issue has been analyzed in Poland for almost thirty years. Individual regulations, in exceptional cases, allow for undertaking coercive actions: treating the patient without consent, applying direct coercion. These interventions are controlled. Polish psychiatric legislation is constantly changing (new control institutions are introduced, the role of the family court is increased). This article presents the latest amendments. They are based on the principle of respect for human rights and freedoms.

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