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Protecting Children in Time|Harry Ferguson

Protecting Children in Time : Child Abuse, Child Protection and the Consequences of Modernity

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Protecting Children in Time provides a highly original analysis of the origins and development of the taken-for-granted notion that it is possible through social intervention to protect children from avoidable harm and even death, to protect children in time . By using case-studies which span the past 120 years of 'modern' practices and drawing on the work of leading social theorists of modernity and risk society it provides a new way of thinking about constructions of child abuse as a social problem and child protection as a late-modern expert system and experience. It proposes new ways of conceptualizing relationships between professionals, children at risk and families and deepens our understanding of what effective interventions have to involve.

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  • ISBN-13: 9781403906939
  • ISBN-10: 1403906939
  • Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
  • Publish Date: June 2004
  • Dimensions: 8.5 x 5.64 x 0.57 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 0.78 pounds
  • Page Count: 262

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