Threatened Children Rhetoric and Concern about Child-Victims

Name: Threatened Children Rhetoric and Concern about Child-Victims
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ISBN: 9780226044262

ISBN-10: 0226044262

ISBN-13: 9780226044262

Edition: 1990

Authors: Joel Best

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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.

Book details

List price: $37.00
Copyright year: 1990
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 5/1/1993
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 239
Size: 0.56" wide x 0.84" long x 0.06" tall
Weight: 0.638
Language: English

Joel Best is Professor of Sociology & Criminal Justice at the University of Delaware. He has published more than twenty books on social problems and deviance, including Threatened Children , Random Violence , Damned Lies and Statistics , and The Student Loan Mess (with Eric Best.)



Tables and Figures


Acknowledgments



The Rise of the Child-Victim



Rhetoric in Claims about Missing Children



The Numbers Game: Statistics as Claims



Definition, Typification, and Domain Expansion



Network News as Secondary Claims



Popular Culture as Secondary Claims



Fears and Folklore



Concern and Public Opinion



Competing in the Social Problems Marketplace


Notes


Appendix: Recent Fiction about Threats to Children


References


Index