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Threatened Children: Rhetoric and Concern about Child-Victims

Threatened Children: Rhetoric and Concern about Child-Victims

Paperback

Series: Rhetoric and Concern about Child-Victims

AbuseGeneral ParentingGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 0226044262
ISBN13: 9780226044262
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: May 1 1993
Pages: 239
Weight: 0.65
Height: 0.58 Width: 5.52 Depth: 8.52
Language: English
Child abuse, incest, child molestation, Halloween sadism, child pornography: although clearly not new problems, they have attracted more attention than ever before. Threatened Children asks why. Joel Best analyzes the rhetorical tools used by child advocates when making claims aimed at raising public anxiety and examines the media's role in transmitting reformers' claims and the public's response to the frightening statistics, compelling examples, and expanding definitions it confronts. Drawing on a wide range of sources, from criminal justice records to news stories, from urban legends to public opinion surveys, Best reveals how the cultural construction of social problems evolves.

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