Threatened Children: Rhetoric and Concern about Child-Victims - Softcover

Best, Joel

 
9780226044262: 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.

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Joel Best is professor of sociology at Southern Illinois University at Carbondale.

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ISBN 10:  0226044254 ISBN 13:  9780226044255
Verlag: University of Chicago Press, 1990
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