In this absorbing story of how child abuse grew from a small, private-sector charity concern into a multimillion-dollar social welfare issue, Barbara Nelson provides important new perspectives on the process of public agenda setting. Using extensive personal interviews and detailed archival research, she reconstructs an invaluable history of child abuse policy in America. She shows how the mass media presented child abuse to the public, how government agencies acted and interacted, and how state and national legislatures were spurred to strong action on this issue. Nelson examines prevailing theories about agenda setting and introduces a new conceptual framework for understanding how a social issue becomes part of the public agenda. This issue of child abuse, she argues, clearly reveals the scope and limitations of social change initiated through interest-group politics. Unfortunately, the process that transforms an issue into a popular cause, Nelson concludes, brings about programs that ultimately address only the symptoms and not the roots of such social problems.
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Barbara J. Nelson was professor of political science and co-director of the Center on Women and Public Policy at the University of Minnesota.
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bizarre brutalization, child abuse bill, federal child abuse legislation, protective custody provisions, medical deviance, private deviance, child abuse policy, child abuse reporting laws, valence issues, topic differentiation, valence character, reporting legislation, model statute, policy initiation, physical child abuse, protected childhood, child abuse prevention Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Children's Bureau, New Jersey, Mary Ellen, United States, Social Security Act, American Humane Association, Henry Kempe, American Political Science Review, Cheryl Ann, District of Columbia, Physicians Reporting Law, The Brookings Institution, Free Press, Senator Mondale, White House, Journal of the American Medical Association, Anthony Downs, Congressional Record, Harvard University Press, Parents Anonymous, Princeton University, Standards Relating, David Gil, Department of Health New!
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bizarre brutalization, child abuse bill, federal child abuse legislation, protective custody provisions, medical deviance, private deviance, child abuse policy, child abuse reporting laws, valence issues, topic differentiation, valence character, reporting legislation, model statute, policy initiation, physical child abuse, protected childhood, child abuse prevention Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Children's Bureau, New Jersey, Mary Ellen, United States, Social Security Act, American Humane Association, Henry Kempe, American Political Science Review, Cheryl Ann, District of Columbia, Physicians Reporting Law, The Brookings Institution, Free Press, Senator Mondale, White House, Journal of the American Medical Association, Anthony Downs, Congressional Record, Harvard University Press, Parents Anonymous, Princeton University, Standards Relating, David Gil, Department of Health New!
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- Child Abuse (The Developing Child Series) by C. Henry Kempe on 6 pages
- Public Policy-Making by James E. Anderson on page 145, page 149, and page 158
- Before the Best Interests of the Child by Joseph Goldstein on page 90, page 156, and page 161
- Beyond the Best Interests of the Child by Joseph Goldstein on page 90, page 156, and page 161
- The Social Context of Child Abuse and Neglect by Leroy H. Pelton on page 142, and page 161
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- The Future of Child Protection: How to Break the Cycle of Abuse and Neglect by Jane Waldfogel in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- From Outrage to Action: THE POLITICS OF GRASS-ROOTS DISSENT by Laura R. Woliver on page 25, and Back Matter
- The Welfare State's Other Crisis: Explaining the New Partnership Between Nonprofit Organizations and the State in France (Indiana University Center on Philanthropy Series in Governance) by Claire Frances Ullman in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Wounded Innocents: The Real Victims of the War Against Child Abuse by Richard Wexler in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Regulating Girls and Women: Sexuality, Family, and the Law in Ontario 1920-1960 (Canadian Social History Series) by Joan Sangster in Back Matter
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