Governing Risk: Care and Control in Contemporary Social Work

By Mark Hardy

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1349349313
• ISBN13: 9781349349319
• Release Date: January 2015
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 221 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.5"