Threatened Children: Rhetoric and Concern about Child-Victims

Threatened Children: Rhetoric and Concern about Child-Victims

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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.

Hardcover: 239 pages

Publisher: University Of Chicago Press (December 15 1990)

Language: English

ISBN-10: 0226044254

ISBN-13: 978-0226044255

Product Dimensions: 6 x 0.8 x 9 inches

Shipping Weight: 7.2 ounces

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