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Children at Risk in America

By Roberta Wollons

Children at Risk in America Law

Children at Risk in America

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This collection of essays addresses twentieth-century historical and contemporary issues regarding children who are considered to be at risk. The essays explore the language of risk as it is used by the courts, the schools, governmental agencies, and child advocates, those who discover risks and create correctives for children who both need protection and threaten to disturb the social order. The tasks require an exploration of differing, often contradictory, concepts of the child and society that are embedded in public policy debates. Deepening the complexity of the problems, institutions to which we look for solutions are too often faced with conflicts that arise when the needs of the child are at variance with the needs of the institutions themselves. These dilemmas are central to understanding our failure to achieve adequate public policy solutions for children at risk.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
340
Release Date:
1992-12-08
Publication Date:
1992-12-08
Publisher:
SUNY Press
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
07914119820824780280
ISBN13:
9780791411988
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
553 g
Height:
152 cm
Width:
229 cm
Thickness:
20 cm
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