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Tables of Contents for How Claims Spread
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Contributors
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Introduction: The Diffusion of Social Problems
1
18
Joel Best
Social Problems Claims and the Undefended Border: The Case of Canada and the United States
19
20
Vincent F. Sacco
Karim Ismaili
Reinventing Abortion as a Social Problem: ``Postabortion Syndrome'' in the United States and Britain
39
30
Ellie Lee
Constructing a ``Dangerous Gun Culture'' in Britain: New Gun Control Laws, 1997
69
20
J. Robert Lilly
Bullying: The British Contribution to the Construction of a Social Problem
89
18
Frank Furedi
The Evolution of Road Rage in Britain and the United States
107
22
Joel Best
Frank Furedi
Frame Diffusion from the U.S. to Japan: Japanese Arguments Against Pornocomics, 1989-1992
129
18
Tadashi Suzuki
How Europe Discovered Its Sex-Offender Crisis
147
22
Philip Jenkins
Contemporary Youth Music and ``Risk'' Lifestyles
169
16
Andy Bennett
The Diffusion of Organ-Theft Narratives
185
30
Veronique Campion-Vincent
The United States and Smoking Problems in Japan
215
28
Jun Ayukawa
The Legal Problem of Sexual Harassment and Its International Diffusion: A Case Study of Austrian Sexual-Harassment Law
243
24
Mia Cahill
Successful and Unsuccessful Diffusion of Social Policy: The United States, Canada, and the Metric System
267
16
Grace Ellen Watkins
Joel Best
Child Protection without Children---or Finnish Children without Problems?
283
22
Tarja Poso
Index
305