Governing risk: care and control in contemporary social work

TY - BOOK

T1 - Governing risk

T2 - care and control in contemporary social work

AU - Hardy, Mark

PY - 2014/9/5

Y1 - 2014/9/5

N2 - 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. It critically interrogates the claim that the logic of actuarialsim is implicated in a shift from 'care' to 'control' and argues the case for a distinctive approach to understanding and undertaking social work which does justice to the reality of contemporary practice.

AB - 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. It critically interrogates the claim that the logic of actuarialsim is implicated in a shift from 'care' to 'control' and argues the case for a distinctive approach to understanding and undertaking social work which does justice to the reality of contemporary practice.

KW - social work

KW - youth and criminal justice

KW - mental health

KW - social work theory

M3 - Book

SN - 9780230364158

SN - 9781349349319

BT - Governing risk

PB - Palgrave Macmillan

ER -