Making an Issue of Child Abuse

Name: Making an Issue of Child Abuse
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ISBN: 9780226572017

ISBN-10: 0226572013

ISBN-13: 9780226572017

Edition: 1986

Authors: Barbara J. Nelson

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In this absorbing story of how child abuse grew from a small, private-sector charity concern into a multimillion-dollar social welfare issue, Barbara Nelson provides important new perspectives on the process of public agenda setting. Using extensive personal interviews and detailed archival research, she reconstructs an invaluable history of child abuse policy in America. She shows how the mass media presented child abuse to the public, how government agencies acted and interacted, and how state and national legislatures were spurred to strong action on this issue. Nelson examines prevailing theories about agenda setting and introduces a new conceptual framework for understanding how a…

Book details

List price: $28.00
Copyright year: 1986
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 4/15/1986
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 184
Size: 0.61" wide x 0.91" long x 0.04" tall
Weight: 0.550
Language: English



Preface


Acknowledgments



Child Abuse as a Social Problem



Theoretical Approaches to Agenda Setting



The Children's Bureau



The Agenda-Setting Function of the Media



There Ought to Be a Law!



Congress



The Public Use of Private Deviance


Notes


Index