Politics Of Child Abuse

NIGEL PARTON is Principal Lecturer in Social Work at Huddersfield Polytechnic, and a part-time honorary social worker in a Social Services Department.

'...the most comprehensive account to date of the discovery and identification of child abuse and its consolidation in Britain as a social problem ...informative and compelling ...an important study not only of child abuse but also of the sociology of a social problem.' - Times Higher Education Supplement