The Children, Women and Justice Series - keynotes and seminars
1. Abused Children / Abusive Government - Our Challenge - keynote
2. A Child's "Thank you" / the Modern History of Child Advocacy in
America - keynote
3. The History of Women and Children in America's Legal System -
keynote
4. Making Courts Safe for Children - keynotes and seminars
5. On Trial: America's Courts and Their Treatment of Sexually Abused
Children - seminars and full courses
6. La Reciente Evolucion en el Tratamiento de Ninos y Pedofilos en el
Sistema de Derecho de los Estados Unidos - lecture in Spanish
1. Abused Children / Abusive Government - Our Challenge - keynote
The child abuse crisis has overwhelmed our nation. Almost every state reports unprecedented increases in violence against children. Incredibly, instead of responding with careful and comprehensive programs to prevent abuse, government has played the role of ostrich -- furiously flapping its wings while going almost nowhere or burying its head in the sand.
Can we afford the unprecedented services essential to prevent violence against children? Can we afford the criminal justice system essential to prevent, protect, and punish? If we cannot, we will live in a society where, in theory, we breathe free but where, in reality, we are consumed by fear and fatal violence.
Judge Charles B. Schudson
Address to the Attorney General's Summit On Violent Crime
Washington, D.C.
March 4, 1992
In this keynote, Judge Schudson discusses the decline of progressive government, the social, economic, and racial factors contributing to that decline, the resulting harm to children and public safety, and the potential for reform.
2. A Child's "Thank you" / the Modern History of Child Advocacy in America - keynote
The keynote that brought over one thousand child advocates to a standing ovation at the Twentieth National Symposium on Child Sexual Abuse in 2004, "A Child's 'Thank you'" praises, supports, and inspires as it teaches child advocates, young and old, about their own extraordinary contributions to America's children.
3. The History of Women and Children in America's Legal System - keynote
Appropriate for both lay and legal audiences, this keynote offers a fascinating and provocative introduction to the history of women and children in America's legal system.
4. Making Courts Safe for Children - keynotes and seminars
Judge Schudson discusses the laws and techniques that can enable children to testify without trauma, and can allow police officers, social workers, therapists, doctors, nurses and others to testify about their interviews and treatment of children.
Judge Schudson will consider American legal history and current practices in his discussion of topics including the most recent case law on child competency and credibility, hearsay, videotape and closed-circuit television testimony, and the use puppets, dolls, support persons, and modified language and courtroom settings.
Judge Schudson also explores the potential for providing multidisciplinary education to help judges and other professionals provide fairness to children in America's courts.
5. On Trial: America's Courts and Their Treatment of Sexually-Abused Children
- seminars and full courses
Appropriate for undergraduate and graduate students, this seminar or course corresponds to Judge Schudson's book, On Trial: America's Courts and Their Treatment of Sexually Abused Children.
6. La Reciente Evolucion en el Tratamiento de Ninos y Pedofilos en el Sistema de Derecho de los Estados Unidos [The Recent History of the Treatment of Children and Pedophiles in the United States Legal System]
In this lecture, in Spanish, Judge Schudson presents a fascinating view of the unprecedented recent developments in the United States legal system's treatment of both children and the pedophiles who abuse them.
