Title: Blaming children
First published: 1997
Description: This book explains the Canadian media's current moral panic, its affiliations with information/political systems, understandings of reader viewers, its alliances with corporate Canada, and its ability to construct and frame debates about youth crime. The reality of youth crime is presented in stark contrast to the collective perception that youth crime is expanding at an alarming rate, and a discussion of the larger structural forces that benefit those who have access to power and indict those who live on the margins of political, social, and economic cultures is revealed.
Subjects: Juvenile delinquency, Public opinion, Mass media and public opinion, Youth in mass media, Moral panics, Children, social conditions, Youth, conduct of life, United states, moral conditions, United states, politics and government
Places: Canada
LC classification: HV9108 .S35 1997