Michael King

A Better World for Children?

Explorations in Morality and Authority

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

By exploring such diverse issues as the management of child abuse, legal reforms following sex abuse enquiries, moral explanations for the actions of child murderers, the impossible task faced by social workers and the limitations of children's rights campaigns, Michael King examines the revolutionary ideas of the social theorist, Niklas Luhmann. He demonstrates how Luhmann's theory of authopoietic systems compels readers to re-examine exactly what they mean by society. Questioning the relationship between personal morality and political will, it challenges the assumption that changing society is merely a matter of changing attitudes and highlights the pitfalls associated with formulating social reform.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 244
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Februar 1997
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 222mm x 145mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 482g
• ISBN-13: 9780415150170
• ISBN-10: 0415150175
• Artikelnr.: 22281324

Autorenporträt

Michael King is Professor and Director of the Centre for the Study of Law, the Child and the Family at the University of Brunel

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Chapter 1. Good Intentions into Social Action
Chapter 2. Child Abuse and the Regulation of Male Power
Chapter 3. Juridification in the Protection of the Scottish Child
Chapter 4. Doing Good for Children - Mission Impossible?
Chapter 5. The James Bulger Trial: Good or Bad for Guilty or Innocent Children
Chapter 6. Real or Imagined Communities and Families
Chapter 7. Observing Children's Rights
Chapter 8. A Different World for Children