After Roper v. Simmons: Keeping Kids Out of Adult Criminal Court

When children kill, as they always have and probably always will, the state must juggle two distinct and oftentimes conflicting concerns: its police power and its parens patriae interest. These concerns are not, however, mutually exclusive. There is a delicate balance that must be maintained. Clearly, the state must incapacitate and punish children who commit serious criminal acts, but, as Simmons says, that does not mean that minors can be executed, nor, as the Authors maintain, be consigned to living death behind bars without any hope of respite. The legal system must somehow be adjusted for children

Dutch strategies for combating child poverty: A child rights-based approach

The understanding of how to address child poverty has changed over the years from a more material approach aimed at the family to a more child rights-based approach. In this chapter, such a child rights-based approach is broadly conceived: it considers children’s rights based on the four core principles of the Convention on the Rights of the Child – the right to life, survival, and development; the right to participate; non-discrimination; and adherence to the best interests of the child – as well as empowerment and accountability. This child rights-based approach provides criteria to assess poverty-reduction policies. In this chapter, these criteria are applied to the Netherlands. The latest Dutch policy shows some awareness of the importance of a more holistic and integrated approach of the child’s development and the best interests of the child. This includes concrete steps to enhance child’s participation in the policy process and first steps towards accountability by introducing poverty reduction aims

Dutch strategies for combating child poverty: A child rights-based approach

The understanding of how to address child poverty has changed over the years from a more material approach aimed at the family to a more child rights-based approach. In this chapter, such a child rights-based approach is broadly conceived: it considers children’s rights based on the four core principles of the Convention on the Rights of the Child – the right to life, survival, and development; the right to participate; non-discrimination; and adherence to the best interests of the child – as well as empowerment and accountability. This child rights-based approach provides criteria to assess poverty-reduction policies. In this chapter, these criteria are applied to the Netherlands. The latest Dutch policy shows some awareness of the importance of a more holistic and integrated approach of the child’s development and the best interests of the child. This includes concrete steps to enhance child’s participation in the policy process and first steps towards accountability by introducing poverty reduction aims

Politics and technologies of authenticity:The Second World War at the close of living memory

Article contribution to Edited Special Issue 'Authenticity'As the participant generation passes away, the current moment of Second World War cultural memory is suffused with a sense of an imminent ending and of our passing into a new phase of engagement beyond living memory, a phase which ? so it is often held ? will be the poorer for lacking the validating presence of first hand witnesses; it may even constitute a kind of closure. This essay takes this observation as a point of departure for a wider exploration of this contemporary landscape of remembrance which, it is argued, is peculiarly and multiply fraught with anxieties about authenticity. It begins by discussing how the steady disappearance of the participant generation serves as a foundation for this anxiety, looking at how it has helped to fuel particular sorts of mnemonic activity as part and parcel of a post-Cold War boom in Second World War remembrance. It then explores some wider aspects of that remembrance which are generating new concerns about authenticity and interrogating it in novel terms. Finally, it makes the case for what can be gained by viewing contemporary Second World War cultural memory through this particular lens and sets out a research agenda for the future.authorsversionPeer reviewe