Children at risk in America : history, concepts, and public policy / Roberta Wollons, editor.

[Albany] : State University of New York Press, [1993], ©1993.

xxv, 310 pages ; 24 cm.

Copy 1 Supplier/Donor: Coutts

Child saving in modern America 1870s-1990s / Hamilton Cravens.--Status offenders, criminal offenders, and children "at risk" in early twentieth-century juvenile court / Steven Schlossman and Susan Turner.--Structuring risks : the making of urban school order / Joseph L. Tropea.--Making controversy : who's "at risk?" / Michelle Fine.--Children's legal rights? : a historical look at a legal paradox / Michael Grossberg.--Inventing the problem child : "at risk" children in the child guidance movement of the 1920s and 1930s / Margo Horn.--Children at risk : students in special education / Alan Gartner and Dorothy Kerzner Lipsky.--Language and ethnicity as factors in school failure : the case of Mexican-Americans / Patricia Gandara.--Adolescent pregnancy and child support / P. Lindsay Chase-Lansdale and Maris A. Vinovskis.--Reversing the poverty cycle with job-based education / Robert I. Lerman.--Public policy and child care : the question of quality / Judith D. Auerbach.--Public policy and child protection / James Garbarino and Kathleen Kostelny

Includes bibliographic references and index