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Childhood and Youth
Viviene Cree
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Description for Childhood and Youth
Paperback. Addresses moralising within discourses of childhood and youth and asks how we might do things differently. Editor(s): Clapton, Gary. Series: Moral Panics in Theory and Practice. Num Pages: 88 pages. BIC Classification: JFSP1; JFSP2; JHB. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 130 x 196 x 14. Weight in Grams: 98.
Childhood and youth have often been the targets of moral panic rhetoric. This Byte explores a series of pressing concerns about young people: child abuse, child pornography, child sexual exploitation, child trafficking and the concept of childhood. With an appraisal of the work of the influential thinker, Geoffrey Pearson, who wrote on deviance and young people, it draws attention to the moralising within these discourses and asks how we might do things differently.
Childhood and youth have often been the targets of moral panic rhetoric. This Byte explores a series of pressing concerns about young people: child abuse, child pornography, child sexual exploitation, child trafficking and the concept of childhood. With an appraisal of the work of the influential thinker, Geoffrey Pearson, who wrote on deviance and young people, it draws attention to the moralising within these discourses and asks how we might do things differently.
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Bristol University Press
Condition
New
Series
Moral Panics in Theory and Practice
Number of Pages
70
Place of Publication
, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781447321941
SKU
V9781447321941
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Ref
99-50
About Viviene Cree
Gary Clapton is a Senior Lecturer in Social Work at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland and was formerly a children and families practitioner in Edinburgh and London. He has written widely on the subject of moral panics.
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