"Childhood" in "crisis"? / edited by Phil Scraton.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Scraton, Phil.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Children--Great Britain--Social conditions.

Children.

Child development--Great Britain.

Child development.

Deviant behavior--Great Britain.

Deviant behavior.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (242 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London : Routledge, 2004.

Summary:

Examining debates concerning children and young people, this text discusses the politics of childhood , focusing on topics such as: the family; education and schooling; mental health; crime and justice; and sexuality.

Contents:

Book Cover; Half-Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgements; Chapter 1 'Childhood': An Introduction to Historical and Theoretical Analyses; What is Childhood?: Some Preliminary Thoughts; Childhood in History: Social Construction and Reconstruction; Theorizing History: Childhood and Social Control; Theoretical Specificity: The Structural Location of Childhood; Children and Adults: Rights, Power and Participation; Childhood as a Structural Division: Exclusion and Marginalization; Intra-Structural Divisions: The Concept of Childhoods

Processes of State Socialization: Time, Space and Specialist Institutions The State-Family Relation: Production, Reproduction and the Processes of Social Replacement; Childhood and Gender Relations: The Limitations and the Potential of Feminist Analyses; Childhood and Economic Relations: Generation and Poverty; Conclusion; Chapter 2 'Crisis': The Demonization of Children and Young People; The Media, Social Construction and Childhood; Children as Criminals; Children as Victims: The Media and Child Abuse; Physical Abuse; Sexual Abuse and Cleveland

James Bulger: From Murder to 'Childhood in Crisis'Conclusion; Chapter 3 'Families' in 'Crisis'?; The Traditional Family in Context; An End to Consensus? Feminism and the Family; Which is the Party of the Family?; The Eternal Triangle: Children, Parents and the State; The 1990's: A Decade of Children's Rights?; An Alternative Future for the Family?; Chapter 4 Prolonging 'Childhood', Manufacturing 'Innocence' and Regulating Sexuality; 'She Devils' and Morality Panics; Constructing Childhood, Confining Sexuality; Feeding the Myths, Forging the Policies; Gillick; HIV/AIDS; Section 28

Age of Consent In Whose Best Interest?; Chapter 5 'Crisis' in the Classroom?; Schools for All; Schooling the Meritocracy; Thatcher's Children; 'Crisis' Revisited; Chapter 6 Children in Trouble: State Responses to Juvenile Crime; Juvenile Justice 1982-1992: A Fragile Consensus; The Post-1992 Clamp-down: A True Blue Approach to Children in Trouble; The Authoritarian Shift: A Critical Analysis; The Processes of Demonization and Detention; The Processes of Dematerialization and Decontextualization; The Processes of Despotism and Disqualification

Reclaiming Justice for Children: The Challenge Ahead Chapter 7 'Mad', 'Bad' or Misunderstood?; Historical and Theoretical Contexts; The Problematics of the Defining Process; The Rights of Children and Young People in Residential Mental Health Settings; The Current 'Crisis'; Challenging Professional Discourses and Classifications; Chapter 8 Whose 'Childhood'? What 'Crisis'?; Deliverance from 'Evil'; The Social Construction and Political Management of the 'Crisis'; Taking the Moral High Ground; Towards a Rights Agenda for Children and Young People; Notes on Contributors; References; Index

Notes:

Originally published: London : UCL, 1997.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based upon print version of record.

ISBN:

1-280-32465-1

1-135-36051-0

1-135-36052-9

0-203-21450-1

0-203-29203-0

9780203214503

OCLC:

646796451