| Children at Risk in America Contributor(s): Wollons, Roberta (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0791411982 ISBN-13: 9780791411988 Publisher: State University of New York Press OUR PRICE: $35.10 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: December 1992 Annotation: This collection of essays addresses twentieth-century historical and contemporary issues regarding children who are considered to be at risk. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Political Science | Public Policy - Social Services & Welfare - Social Science - Education | History |
| Dewey: 362.709 |
| LCCN: 91-38871 |
| Series: Suny Series, Youth Social Services, Schooling, and Public Po |
| Physical Information: 0.76" H x 6" W x 9" (1.10 lbs) 336 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |
