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

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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.

About the Author


Mark Hardy is Lecturer in Social Work at the University of York, UK.

Product Details
ISBN: 9780230364158
ISBN-10: 0230364152
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Publication Date: January 30th, 2015
Pages: 221
Language: English