The Interpretation of Child Abuse: Bureaucratic Relevance in Urban Newfoundland
The disposition of suspected instances of child abuse is accomplished by bureaucratic personnel through their interpretation of the relevancies of their organizational life-world. Three such instances are discussed: these resulted respectively in an unmodified interpretation, in a modified interpret...
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ftwesternmichun:oai:scholarworks.wmich.edu:jssw-1334 2023-06-11T04:14:10+02:00 The Interpretation of Child Abuse: Bureaucratic Relevance in Urban Newfoundland Handelman, Don 1979-01-01T08:00:00Z application/pdf https://scholarworks.wmich.edu/jssw/vol6/iss1/8 https://doi.org/10.15453/0191-5096.1334 https://scholarworks.wmich.edu/context/jssw/article/1334/viewcontent/JSSW_6.1_7_Handelman.pdf unknown ScholarWorks at WMU https://scholarworks.wmich.edu/jssw/vol6/iss1/8 doi:10.15453/0191-5096.1334 https://scholarworks.wmich.edu/context/jssw/article/1334/viewcontent/JSSW_6.1_7_Handelman.pdf The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare Social Work text 1979 ftwesternmichun https://doi.org/10.15453/0191-5096.1334 2023-05-07T16:43:39Z The disposition of suspected instances of child abuse is accomplished by bureaucratic personnel through their interpretation of the relevancies of their organizational life-world. Three such instances are discussed: these resulted respectively in an unmodified interpretation, in a modified interpretation, and in an ambiguous interpretation. Among the bureaucratic relevancies which are discussed are, the elasticity itself of the rubric of "suspicion", the affluence of the suspected, and the nature of their support network. The reification of instances of suspected abuse is found to be related, in part, to bureaucratic contingencies which themselves are connected only tangentially to the behavioral phenomenon under investigation. Text Newfoundland Western Michigan University: ScholarWorks at MMU The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare 6 1 |
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The disposition of suspected instances of child abuse is accomplished by bureaucratic personnel through their interpretation of the relevancies of their organizational life-world. Three such instances are discussed: these resulted respectively in an unmodified interpretation, in a modified interpretation, and in an ambiguous interpretation. Among the bureaucratic relevancies which are discussed are, the elasticity itself of the rubric of "suspicion", the affluence of the suspected, and the nature of their support network. The reification of instances of suspected abuse is found to be related, in part, to bureaucratic contingencies which themselves are connected only tangentially to the behavioral phenomenon under investigation. |
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