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

By Harry Ferguson

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1403906920
• ISBN13: 9781403906922
• Release Date: June 2004
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 262 Pages
• Weight: 0.99 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.7" x 8.8"