Trotter welfare’s protection: A legislative perspective

Fetal Protection in Wisconsin's

n the summer of 1998, the Wisconsin State legislature amended its child protection laws.' Under new child abuse provisions, Wisconsin judges can confine pregnant women who abuse alcohol or drugs for the duration of their pregnancies. South Dakota enacted similar legislation almost simultaneously. The South Dakota statute requires mandatory drug and alcohol treatment for pregnant women who abuse...

The Need for Participative Interventions in Child Protection: Perspectives from Nuevo León State

This article examines characteristics and social work practices within the Mexican child protection system by combining observations of practice with the voices and the views expressed by managers, social workers, families, children and young people. The results of the study confirm the need for and desire to adopt a participatory approach, in preference to the individualistic ideas that curren...

Judicial and Legislative Protection of the Consumer Notemaker

State Attorneys General's Use of Concurrent Public Enforcement Authority in Federal Consumer Protection Laws

Recent scholarly and legislative interest in state enforcement of federal law has led to the need for an empirical understanding of how and when these enforcement powers are used. This Article reports on an examination of the use by state attorneys general of sixteen federal consumer protection laws that expressly allow for state enforcement. The data are sorted and analyzed by both single stat...

Influence of Pahlavi Government Policies on the Non-Institutionalization of the Public Participation Culture in the Field of Environmental Protection (1941-1978)

One of the most important factors in the success of the government in implementing environmental policies is the active and effective public participation. Therefore, in this study, by analyzing the Iranian government's environmental policies, especially environmental legislation, and with a glance at the quintet pre-revolutionary development plans of 1978, the government's contribution and the...