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

Ferguson, Harry

ISBN 10: 1403906939 / ISBN 13: 9781403906939

Published by Palgrave Macmillan, 2004

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Protecting Children in Time: Child Abuse, Child Protection and the Consequences of Modernity
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1403906939
• ISBN 13: 9781403906939
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: As New
• Weight: 12 ounces

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Synopsis

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.

About the Author

Harry Ferguson is the author of several books and numerous articles, he has been working in the areas of social theory, social policy, social work and child protection for over thirty years.