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How claims spread : cross-national diffusion of social problems

Title: How claims spread : cross-national diffusion of social problems / Joel Best, editor.
Publication: New York : Aldine de Gruyter, [2001], ©2001.

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Additional Authors

Best, Joel.

Description

viii, 306 pages; 24 cm.

Series Statement

Social problems and social issues

Uniform Title

Social problems and social issues.

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Bibliography (note)

Contents

1. Introduction: The Diffusion of Social Problems / Joel Best -- 2. Social Problems Claims and the Undefended Border: The Case of Canada and the United States / Vincent F. Sacco and Karim Ismaili -- 3. Reinventing Abortion as a Social Problem: "Postabortion Syndrome" in the United States and Britain / Ellie Lee -- 4. Constructing a "Dangerous Gun Culture" in Britain: New Gun Control Laws, 1997 / J. Robert Lilly -- 5. Bullying: The British Contribution to the Construction of a Social Problem / Frank Furedi -- 6. The Evolution of Road Rage in Britain and the United States / Joel Best and Frank Furedi -- 7. Frame Diffusion from the U.S. to Japan: Japanese Arguments Against Pornocomics, 1989-1992 / Tadashi Suzuki -- 8. How Europe Discovered Its Sex-Offender Crisis / Philip Jenkins -- 9. Contemporary Youth Music and "Risk" Lifestyles / Andy Bennett -- 10. The Diffusion of Organ-Theft Narratives / Veronique Campion-Vincent --
11. The United States and Smoking Problems in Japan / Jun Ayukawa -- 12. The Legal Problem of Sexual Harassment and Its International Diffusion: A Case Study of Austrian Sexual-Harassment Law / Mia Cahill -- 13. Successful and Unsuccessful Diffusion of Social Policy: The United States, Canada, and the Metric System / Grace Ellen Watkins and Joel Best -- 14. Child Protection without Children - or Finnish Children without Problems? / Tarja Poso.

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00046926

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Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries