Governing Risk
Care and Control in Contemporary Social Work
Published on 1. January 2015
Book
Paperback/Softback
VI, 221 pages
978-1-349-34931-9 (ISBN)
Description
Drawing on Foucault's later work on governmentality, this book traces the effects of 'the rise of risk' on contemporary social work practice. Focusing on two 'domains' of practice - mental health social work and probation work - it analyses the ways in which risk thinking has affected social work's aims and objectives, methods and approaches.
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Edition
1st ed. 2015
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Illustrations
VI, 221 p.
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 13 mm
Weight
295 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-349-34931-9 (9781349349319)
DOI
10.1057/9781137313515
Schweitzer Classification
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Book
01/2015
Palgrave Macmillan
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Person
Mark Hardy is Lecturer in Social Work at the University of York, UK.
Content
Introduction 1. Enduring Debates in Social Work 2. Accounting for 'the Rise of Risk' 3. Mental Health Social Work: A Case in Point 4. The Probation Service: Pragmatism in Practice? 5. 'An Analytics of Social Work' 6. A Technical Identity? 7. Risk, Uncertainty and Blame in Contemporary Practice 8. Conclusion: Doing Justice to Social Work