Author : Harry Ferguson
Publisher : Springer
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2004-06-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780230006249
Protecting Children in Time by Harry Ferguson Pdf
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.