Reifying risk and health: Cultural normativity, bureaucracy, and moral quandary in child abuse investigations in Japan

Christopher Chapman

Children and Youth Services Review, 2025, vol. 170, issue C

Abstract: Risk is a focal point of casework in Japanese child protection; child abuse and its prevention have been social and policy issues for over thirty years. In response, a growing labor force of civil servants performs as child protection caseworkers; yet inequities in care practice and outcome remain stark.

Keywords: Child protection; Risk; Health; Morality; Ethics; Ethnography; Asia (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
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DOI: 10.1016/j.childyouth.2025.108135

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