Child abuse, incest, child molestation, Halloween sadism, child pornography: although clearly not new problems, they have attracted more attention than ever before. Threatened Children asks why. Joel Best analyzes the rhetorical tools used by child advocates when making claims aimed at raising public anxiety and examines the media's role in transmitting reformers' claims and the public's response to the frightening statistics, compelling examples, and expanding definitions it confronts. Drawing on a wide range of sources, from criminal justice records to news stories, from urban legends to public opinion surveys, Best reveals how the cultural construction of social problems evolves.
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Joel Best is professor of sociology at Southern Illinois University at Carbondale.
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social problems marketplace, social problems construction, network news stories, secondary claims, domain expansion, adolescent prostitution, missing children, child snatchings, typify the problem, threatened children, atrocity tales, child ahuse, collective hysteria, sexual ahuse, concern about threats, contemporary mood Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
John Walsh, Stephen King, Los Angeles Times Poll, New Right, New York Times, Adam Walsh, Attorney General's Advisory Board, Blue Star Acid, Child Find, Denver Post, Index of Concern, Los Angeles Times National Poll, More Abuse, United States, Children's Bureau, Senator Hawkins, Senator Paula Hawkins, Etan Patz, Gallup Poll, Gallup Report, Lois Lane, Mothers Against Drunk Driving, The Shining New!
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Stephen King's It topped the best-seller lists as soon as it appeared in September 1986. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
social problems marketplace, social problems construction, network news stories, secondary claims, domain expansion, adolescent prostitution, missing children, child snatchings, typify the problem, threatened children, atrocity tales, child ahuse, collective hysteria, sexual ahuse, concern about threats, contemporary mood Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
John Walsh, Stephen King, Los Angeles Times Poll, New Right, New York Times, Adam Walsh, Attorney General's Advisory Board, Blue Star Acid, Child Find, Denver Post, Index of Concern, Los Angeles Times National Poll, More Abuse, United States, Children's Bureau, Senator Hawkins, Senator Paula Hawkins, Etan Patz, Gallup Poll, Gallup Report, Lois Lane, Mothers Against Drunk Driving, The Shining New!
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- Pet Sematary by Stephen King on page 115, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Ghost Story by Peter Straub on page 118, and Back Matter
- The Child in Time by Ian McEwan in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Sisters of the Road by Barbara Wilson on page 121, and Back Matter
- The Year Without Michael by Susan Beth Pfeffer in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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- Fixing Families: Parents, Power, and the Child Welfare System by Jennifer A. Reich in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Perspectives on Social Problems, Volume 12 by HOLSTEIN on page 13, page 52, and page 282
- It Ain't Necessarily So: How the Media Remake Our Picture of Reality by David Murray in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Conceiving Risk, Bearing Responsibility: Fetal Alcohol Syndrome and the Diagnosis of Moral Disorder by Elizabeth M. Armstrong in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- At Home in the Street: Street Children of Northeast Brazil by Tobias Hecht on page 183, and Back Matter
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