By Laura Gomez
Offers a case learn of the way public coverage approximately replica and crime is made. This name makes use of secondary study and first-hand interviews with legislators and prosecutors to ascertain attitudes towards the criminalization and/or medicalization of drug use while pregnant by means of the legislature and legal justice process in California.
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Some emergent social problems will fade out after the first stage, with claims-makers having failed to ignite either elite or popular consciousness as to the worthiness of the problem. Other emergent social problems, however, will move beyond discovery to institutionalization, the stage that is the focus of this book. 12 A social problem is institutionalized, for instance, when state resources are allocated to defining, measuring, or counting it, when special personnel are designated for solving it, or when a particular institution is charged with managing it.
1985, 1986a, and 1986b). These reports were quite speculative, exploring the potential risks of cocaine, suggesting possible links with serious birth outcomes, and concluding that there was an association between maternal cocaine use and newborn outcome. , 1985; Chasnoff, 1988; Cole, 1990). Cocaine-exposed babies also exhibited higher rates of physical, mental, and emotional irregularities; in severe cases, they manifested withdrawal symptoms, including irritability and inability to be calmed by caretakers (Kandall and Chavkin, 1992, reviewing earlier literature).
Cocaine-exposed babies also exhibited higher rates of physical, mental, and emotional irregularities; in severe cases, they manifested withdrawal symptoms, including irritability and inability to be calmed by caretakers (Kandall and Chavkin, 1992, reviewing earlier literature). The early studies were relatively unrigorous, though not unusually so in comparison with other initial studies that draw attention to a new medical area. 29 Within five years of Chasnoff's first study, American medical journals had published 80 articles concerning prenatal exposure to cocaine (Norton-Hawk, 1995a, 12).