Dark Secrets of Childhood : : Media Power, Child Abuse and Public Scandals / / Fred Powell, Margaret Scanlon.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Bristol University Press Complete eBook-Package 2015
• VerfasserIn: Powell, Fred,; Scanlon, Margaret,
• Place / Publishing House: Bristol : : Policy Press, , [2015]; ©2015
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (256 p.)
• Other title: Front Matter --; Contents --; Acknowledgements --; Introduction --; The reports --; The construction of child abuse as a social problem --; The public child --; The Catholic Church, scandal and media --; The Ryan Report and the charity myth --; Child abuse, cultural disbelief and the patriarchal family --; The context --; Rethinking children’s rights --; Child culture and risk society --; Angelmakers: the hidden history of child abuse --; The cultural politics of child abuse --; Conclusion --; References --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781447317876; 9783111196428
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Fred Powell, Margaret Scanlon.

Over the last few decades, public opinion has been traumatised by revelations of child abuse on a mass scale. It has become the major human rights story of the 21st century in Western society. This ground-breaking book explores the relationship between the media, child abuse and shifting adult–child power relations which, in Western countries, has spawned an ever-expanding range of laws, policies and procedures introduced to address the ‘explosion’ of interest in the issue of child abuse. Allegations of child sexual abuse by Roman Catholic clergy in Ireland – and its ‘cover-up’ by Church authorities – have given rise to one of the greatest institutional scandals of modern history. Through in-depth analysis of 20 years of media representation of the issue, the book draws significant insights on the media’s influence and its impact on civil society. Highly topical and of interest and relevance to lecturers and researchers in the areas of childhood studies, sociology of childhood, child protection and social work, social and public policy and human rights, as well as policymakers, this book provides an important contribution to the international debate about child abuse as reflected to the public through the power of the media.