Governing Risk - Care and Control in Contemporary Social Work (Hardcover)


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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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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Imprint

Palgrave Macmillan

Country of origin

United Kingdom

Release date

2015

Availability

Expected to ship within 10 - 15 working days

First published

2015

Authors

Dimensions

216 x 140 x 19mm (L x W x T)

Format

Hardcover

Pages

221

ISBN-13

978-0-230-36415-8

Barcode

9780230364158

Categories

LSN

0-230-36415-2



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