Chapter 1 Protecting Children in Time, or Failing To: Child Abuse, Child Protection and Modernity

Chapter 2 Taking it Onto the Streets: The Discovery of Child Death and Birth of Child Protection, 1870–1914

Chapter 3 The Smell of Practice: Child Protection, the Body and the Experience of Modernity

Chapter 4 From Day-to-Day Quietly and Without Fuss: Child Protection, Simple Modernity and the Repression of Knowledge of Child Death, 1914–70

Chapter 5 Child Physical Abuse and the Return of Death Since the 1970s: Child Protection, Risk and Reflexive Modernization

Chapter 6 Child Sexual Abuse and the Reflexive Project of the Self: Child Protection, Individualization and Life Politics

Chapter 7 Into Another World: Child Neglect, Multi-problem Families and the Psychosocial Dynamics of Late-modern Child Protection