Children at Risk in America History, Concepts, and Public Policy

Name: Children at Risk in America History, Concepts, and Public Policy
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ISBN: 9780791411988

ISBN-10: 0791411982

ISBN-13: 9780791411988

Edition: N/A

Authors: Roberta Wollons

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This collection of essays addresses 20th-century historical and contemporary issues regarding children who are considered to be at risk. The essays explore the language of risk as it is used by the courts, the schools, governmental agencies, and child advocates, those who discover risks and create correctives for children who both need protection and threaten to disturb the social order. Paper edition (unseen), $17.95. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Book details

List price: $36.95
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Publication date: 12/8/1992
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 336
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.188
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Introduction




Historical Public Discourse



Child Saving in Modern America 1870s-1990s




Status Offenders, Criminal Offenders, and Children "At Risk" in Early Twentieth-Century Juvenile Court




Structuring Risks: The Making of Urban School Order




Reconceptualizing Children at Risk



Making Controversy: Who's "At Risk?"




Children's Legal Rights? A Historical Look at a Legal Paradox




Inventing the Problem Child: "At Risk" Children in the Child Guidance Movement of the 1920s and 1930s




Contemporary Public Discourse



Children at Risk: Students in Special Education




Language and Ethnicity as Factors in School Failure: The Case of Mexican-Americans




Adolescent Pregnancy and Child Support




Reversing the Poverty Cycle with Job-Based Education




Public Policy and Child Care: The Question of Quality




Public Policy and Child Protection



Contributors


Index