Threatened Children: Rhetoric and Concern about Child-Victims

by Joel Best

Book Overview

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,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226044254
• ISBN13: 9780226044255
• Release Date: December 1990
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 239 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 5.5" x 8.5"