Children and the Law: The Essential Readings

I tend to treat books of readings with some suspicion. Is the publisher merely re‐cycling some its own material for a cheap reprint? Is the editor merely re‐hashing material to publish before being damned? Are the authors milking their work for all its worth? Forgive my cynicism; it is an occupational hazard; and surely misplaced here. My apologies to the Anglo‐Canadian editors of the publisher’s new series Essential Readings in Developmental Psychology. In this series, selections of readings are brought together to illustrate important methodological, empirical, and theoretical issues in the areas covered. This volume is introduced by the...