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In four pages this text on a famous 1989 U.S. Supreme Court child abuse case is summarized and reviewed, with its theme, author’s methodological approach, arguments, and conclusions included. There are no other sources listed.
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1979 in Cheyenne, Wyoming. Four years later, the author quotes one observer describing the child as "like a regular kid" (Curry 13). But his life and its impact
upon American constitutional law and society would be anything but regular as Eastern Illinois University Professor of History Lynne Curry reveals in her engrossing and concise 176-page text, The DeShaney
Case: Child Abuse, Family Rights, and the Dilemma of State Intervention. Professor Curry methodically takes the reader through all aspects of what would become known as DeShaney v. Winnebago
County, 489 (1989) as if she was teaching an important lesson in social history. She begins with background information on Joshuas family life with his parents, their divorce and
Randys assuming custody of the child because the mother believed that would be in her childs best interest, how there had been previous social services departmental investigations of Randy DeShaney
for domestic violence and child caseworker visits, but Joshua nevertheless wound up at Oshkosh, Wisconsins Mercy Hospital. The unconscious child was suffering from a head trauma that was attributed
to not one but several beatings at the hands of his father that left his brain destroyed for all intents and purposes. After putting a name and a
face on the social issue of child abuse, and considering the dilemma of the social worker who seeks to keep a family intact rather than place a child into foster
care, Professor Curry then provides an historical overview of nineteenth and twentieth-century child protection in America and then examines child abuse as a crime. There are parallels drawn between
the criminal law and how Randy DeShaney fared in the criminal justice system. She then shifts from a social to a legal perspective by describing the lower court and
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