Julia Fionda is Senior Lecturer and Director of the Institute of Criminal Justice in the Law School at Southampton University.

• Part 1 Perspectives on childhood: legal concepts of childhood - an introduction, Julia Fionda; sociological perspectives and media representations of childhood, Chris Jenks; philosophical perspectives on childhood, David Archard; psychological and psychiatric perspectives, Quentin Spender and Alexandra John. Part II The child in law: youth and justice, Julia Fionda; children in court, Allan Levy QC; law, literature and the child, Ian Ward; children through tort, Roderick Bagshaw; the medical treatment of children, Penney Lewis; the minor as (a) subject - the case of housing law, David Cowan and Nick Dearden; the child in family law, Michael Freeman; children's rights and education, Paul Meredith; children and social security law, Nick Wikeley.

This publication provides a useful analysis of how our legal system views children. It will be of interest to all those involved with children in the legal system. The Review Editor ChildRIGHT February 2002 The analyses presented here are accessible and, for readers who are unfamiliar with the law relating to children, they succeed in conveying some of the key shifts in thinking and policy that have taken place over the past two decades. The collection provides further evidence of the quality of the growing scholarship on children and the law. Jeremy Roche, The Open University Children and Society February 2002

Julia Fionda is Senior Lecturer and Director of the Institute of Criminal Justice in the Law School at Southampton University.

• Part 1 Perspectives on childhood: legal concepts of childhood - an introduction, Julia Fionda; sociological perspectives and media representations of childhood, Chris Jenks; philosophical perspectives on childhood, David Archard; psychological and psychiatric perspectives, Quentin Spender and Alexandra John. Part II The child in law: youth and justice, Julia Fionda; children in court, Allan Levy QC; law, literature and the child, Ian Ward; children through tort, Roderick Bagshaw; the medical treatment of children, Penney Lewis; the minor as (a) subject - the case of housing law, David Cowan and Nick Dearden; the child in family law, Michael Freeman; children's rights and education, Paul Meredith; children and social security law, Nick Wikeley.

This publication provides a useful analysis of how our legal system views children. It will be of interest to all those involved with children in the legal system. The Review Editor ChildRIGHT February 2002 The analyses presented here are accessible and, for readers who are unfamiliar with the law relating to children, they succeed in conveying some of the key shifts in thinking and policy that have taken place over the past two decades. The collection provides further evidence of the quality of the growing scholarship on children and the law. Jeremy Roche, The Open University Children and Society February 2002

Julia Fionda is Senior Lecturer and Director of the Institute of Criminal Justice in the Law School at Southampton University.

• Part 1 Perspectives on childhood: legal concepts of childhood - an introduction, Julia Fionda; sociological perspectives and media representations of childhood, Chris Jenks; philosophical perspectives on childhood, David Archard; psychological and psychiatric perspectives, Quentin Spender and Alexandra John. Part II The child in law: youth and justice, Julia Fionda; children in court, Allan Levy QC; law, literature and the child, Ian Ward; children through tort, Roderick Bagshaw; the medical treatment of children, Penney Lewis; the minor as (a) subject - the case of housing law, David Cowan and Nick Dearden; the child in family law, Michael Freeman; children's rights and education, Paul Meredith; children and social security law, Nick Wikeley.

This publication provides a useful analysis of how our legal system views children. It will be of interest to all those involved with children in the legal system. The Review Editor ChildRIGHT February 2002 The analyses presented here are accessible and, for readers who are unfamiliar with the law relating to children, they succeed in conveying some of the key shifts in thinking and policy that have taken place over the past two decades. The collection provides further evidence of the quality of the growing scholarship on children and the law. Jeremy Roche, The Open University Children and Society February 2002