Vulnerability and Young People : : Care and Social Control in Policy and Practice /

Vulnerability and Young People : : Care and Social Control in Policy and Practice / / Kate Brown.

The notion of 'vulnerability' is now a prominent motif in social policy in the UK and beyond, with important implications for those deemed 'vulnerable'. Yet the effects of recalibrating welfare and criminal justice processes on the basis of vulnerability often escape attention. T...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Bristol University Press Complete eBook-Package 2015
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Brown, Kate,
Place / Publishing House:Bristol : : Policy Press, , [2015]
©2015
Year of Publication:2015
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (252 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Front Matter
  • Contents
  • List of tables and figures
  • Acknowledgements
  • The vulnerability zeitgeist
  • Making sense of vulnerability
  • The rise of vulnerability in social policy
  • Vulnerability management
  • Vulnerable young people’s lives
  • Vulnerable identities?
  • The social mediation of vulnerability
  • Vulnerability, behavioural regulation and ‘revolting subjects’
  • Appendix: Pen portraits of vulnerable young people
  • References
  • Index

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