Publisher | Palgrave |
ISBN 13 | 9781403906939 |
Author | Ferguson |
Language | English |
Book Description | 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. |
Publication Date | 2004 |
Number of Pages | 276 |
Protecting Children In Time:Child Abuse,Child Protection & The Consequences Of Modernity. Paperback English by Ferguson - 2004