Child sexual abuse : purity and danger in an age of anxiety
Pratt, John
Child sexual abuse : purity and danger in an age of anxiety Pratt, John - New York Springer Pub. Co. 2005
Crime, Law and Social Change 43(4-5) June 2005 : 263-287
This journal article discusses what the author describes as the emergence and development of child sexual abuse (CSA) as a social problem in the main English-speaking societies in the post 1970s period. The author argues that, in contrast to prevailing explanations in moral panic and feminist literature, this problem has become knowable and understandable to us as a new kind of risk. The author further argues that this is the result of the positioning of child sexual abuse between the tensions, uncertainties and anxieties characteristic of 'the age of anxiety' on the one hand, and the cultural understandings that have come to be associated with purity and danger in this period on the other.
0925-4994
CHILDREN
CULTURAL DIFFERENCES
CULTURAL ISSUES
FAMILIES
INCEST
JUSTICE
RISK MANAGEMENT
VICTIMS
WOMEN
CHILD ABUSE
CHILD SEXUAL ABUSE
SEXUAL VIOLENCE
NEW ZEALAND
Child sexual abuse : purity and danger in an age of anxiety Pratt, John - New York Springer Pub. Co. 2005
Crime, Law and Social Change 43(4-5) June 2005 : 263-287
This journal article discusses what the author describes as the emergence and development of child sexual abuse (CSA) as a social problem in the main English-speaking societies in the post 1970s period. The author argues that, in contrast to prevailing explanations in moral panic and feminist literature, this problem has become knowable and understandable to us as a new kind of risk. The author further argues that this is the result of the positioning of child sexual abuse between the tensions, uncertainties and anxieties characteristic of 'the age of anxiety' on the one hand, and the cultural understandings that have come to be associated with purity and danger in this period on the other.
0925-4994
CHILDREN
CULTURAL DIFFERENCES
CULTURAL ISSUES
FAMILIES
INCEST
JUSTICE
RISK MANAGEMENT
VICTIMS
WOMEN
CHILD ABUSE
CHILD SEXUAL ABUSE
SEXUAL VIOLENCE
NEW ZEALAND