@article{ref1,
title="Law reform, child maltreatment and the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child",
journal="International journal of children's rights",
year="2016",
author="Polonko, Karen A. and Lombardo, Lucien X. and Bolling, Ian M.",
volume="24",
number="1",
pages="29-64",
abstract="Scholars and practitioners stress the need for systematic research on the implementation of the <small>UN</small> Convention on the Rights of the Child (<small>CRC</small>) and its potential impact on children's rights. Our study focused on one aspect of implementation - law reform. Drawing primarily on reports to the <small>CRC</small> Committee for 179 countries, results show for most countries, implementation is limited and focused far more on child-welfare than child-rights based legislation. The relationship of measures of law reform/legal regime (most notably, the existence of customary law and laws banning corporal punishment) to children's experience of rights, child physical abuse and mortality, is analysed and theoretically grounded.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0927-5568",
doi="10.1163/15718182-02401010",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/15718182-02401010"
}