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Title: Framing the child at risk
Related: Health, risk and society, Vol. 8, Issue 3, p.273-291
DOI: 10.1080/13698570600871778
Publisher: Taylor and Francis
Date: 2006
Author/Creator: Firkins, Arthur
Author/Creator: Candlin, Christopher N
Description: Risk Assessment Reports are one form of accounting practice which delineate the space of risk considered in a child abuse neglect investigation. The paper analyses two Risk Assessment Reports, contrasting what is reported, what is directly observed and what is hypothesized and implied by child protection practitioners during the assessment of risk. From an analysis of these two reports (each 4 - 5 pages long), the paper identifies the rhetorical strategies and their realizations used by two practitioners in framing the child at risk. The paper problematizes the tension between the institutional need to constrain the exercise of professional judgement through Risk Assessment Models, and the extent to which practitioners actually localize the framing of risk to specific areas of investigation.
Description: 19 page(s)
Subject Keyword: risk assesment
Subject Keyword: activity types
Subject Keyword: framing risk
Subject Keyword: child protection
Subject Keyword: frame analysis
Resource Type: journal article
Organisation: Macquarie University. Dept. of Linguistics

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