The Politics of Child Abuse in America

by Lela B. Costin, David Stoesz, Howard Jacob Karger

Book Overview

Child abuse policy in the United States contains dangerous contradictions, which have only intensified as the public slowly accepted it as a middle class problem. One contradiction is the rapidly expanding child abuse industry (made up of enterprising psychotherapists and attorneys) which is consuming enormous resources, while thousands of poor children are seriously injured or killed, many while being "protected" by public agencies. This "rediscovery"...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195116682
• ISBN13: 9780195116687
• Release Date: February 1997
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.78 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"