Governing Families: Problematising Technologies in Social Welfare and Criminal Justice

By Rosalind Edwards and Pamela Ugwudike

Book Overview

This book provides a focused discussion of how families are governed through technologies. It shows how states attempt to influence, shape and govern families as both the source of and solution to a range of social problems including crime.

The book critically reviews family governance in contemporary neo-liberal society, notably through technologies of self-responsibilisation, biologisation, and artificial intelligence. The book draws attention to the poor working class and racialised families that often are marked out and evaluated as culpable, dysfunctional, and a threat to economic and social order, obscuring the structural inequalities that underpin family lives and discriminations that are built into the tools that identify and govern families.

Filling a gap where disciplinary perspectives cross-cut, this book brings together sociological and criminological perspectives to provide a unique cross-disciplinary approach to the topic. It will be of interest to researchers, scholars and lecturers studying sociology and criminology, as well as policy-makers and professionals working in the fields of early years and family intervention programmes, including in social work, health, education, and the criminologically-relevant professions such as police and probation.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0BTMV9B4R
• ISBN13: 9780367530754
• Release Date: February 2023
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 122 Pages
• Weight: 0.34 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.5" x 8.5"