A Better World for Children?: Explorations in Morality and Authority

by Michael King

Book Overview

By exploring such diverse issues as the management of child abuse, legal reforms following sex abuse enquiries, moral explanations for the actions of child murderers, the impossible task faced by social workers and the limitations of children's rights campaigns, Michael King examines the revolutionary ideas of the social theorist, Niklas Luhmann. He demonstrates how Luhmann's theory of authopoietic systems compels readers to re-examine exactly what...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415150183
• ISBN13: 9780415150187
• Release Date: February 1997
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.76 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 8.1"