Protecting Children in Time provides a highly original analysis of the origins and development of the taken-for-granted notion that it is possible through social intervention to protect children from avoidable harm and even death, to protect children in time . By using case-studies which span the past 120 years of 'modern' practices and drawing on the work of leading social theorists of modernity and risk society it provides a new way of thinking about constructions of child abuse as a social problem and child protection as a late-modern expert system and experience. It proposes new ways of conceptualizing relationships between professionals, children at risk and families and deepens our understanding of what effective interventions have to involve.
- ISBN13 9781403906939
- Publish Date 11 June 2004 (first published 1 January 2004)
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition 2004 ed.
- Format Paperback
- Pages 262
- Language English