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Threatened children : rhetoric and concern about child-victims

Title
Threatened children : rhetoric and concern about child-victims / Joel Best.
Author
Best, Joel.
Publication
Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1990.

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Description
xii, 232 pages : illustrations; 23 cm
Subject
  • Child abuse > United States
  • Missing children > United States
  • Mass media > Social aspects > United States
  • English language > United States > Rhetoric
  • Child abuse
  • English language > Rhetoric
  • Mass media > Social aspects
  • Missing children
  • Kindesmisshandlung
  • United States
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 209-227) and index.
Contents
1. The rise of the child-victim -- 2. Rhetoric in claims about missing children -- 3. The numbers game : statistics as claims -- 4. Definition, typification, and domain expansion -- 5. Network news as secondary claims -- 6. Popular culture as secondary claims -- 7. Fears and folklore -- 8. Concern and public opinion -- 9. Competing in the social problems marketplace.
ISBN
  • 0226044254
  • 9780226044255
LCCN
89048508
OCLC
  • ocm20691439
  • 20691439
  • SCSB-1897469
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library