0 the legal right or duty to care for someone or something, especially a child after its parents have separated or died: --
1 the state of being kept in prison, especially while waiting to go to court for trial: --
2 the right or duty to care for someone or something, as for a child whose parents have separated or died: --
3 the state of being kept by the police, usually while waiting to go to court for trial: --
4 the legal right to manage and look after another person's money, investments, etc.: --
Thus, issues surrounding race, deaths in custody, public order policing and litigation have each played a central part during the course of the last half-century.
After birth, 78 retained custody of their infant and completed assessments at 6 months postpartum.
However, cultural and social norms relative to the custody of children and inheritance were the critical factors restricting the possibilities of women finding new partners.
In addition, the families in our study suffered many of the stresses that attend poverty, divorce, custody disputes, and alcohol and drug problems.
Another class of interesting cases involve petitions by family members of people in custody or who had simply disappeared.
Even children as young as a few weeks were taken into custody.
Does this mean that coercion in police custody could be allowed under the very restrictive circumstances outlined above?
The mere chance that a small proportion of detainees could be innocent might call for blanket restrictions on state violence in police custody.
