Growing up with risk / / ed. by Betsy Thom, Rosemary Sales, Jenny Pearce.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Bristol University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2013-1995
• MitwirkendeR: Ball, David,; Barnard, Marina,; Bayley, Mariana,; Borossa, Julia,; Hek, Rachel,; Hoggart, Lesley,; Jordan, Lesley,; Lupton, Kenneth,; McKeganey, Neil,; Meetoo, Veena,; Mirza, Heidi Safia,; Pearce, Jenny J.,; Porteous, David,; Reid, Alan S.,; Sales, Rosemary,; Thom, Betsy,; Ward, Jenni,
• HerausgeberIn: Pearce, Jenny,; Sales, Rosemary,; Thom, Betsy,
• Place / Publishing House: Bristol : : Policy Press, , [2007]; ©2007
• Year of Publication: 2007
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (296 p.)

Growing up with risk provides a critical analysis of ways in which risk assessment and management - now a pervasive element of contemporary policy and professional practice - are defined and applied in policy, theory and practice in relation to children and young people. Drawing on conceptual framew...

Table of Contents

• Front Matter
• Contents
• List of tables, figures and boxes
• Acknowledgements
• Notes on contributors
• Introduction
• Mothering, deprivation and the formation of child psychoanalysis in Britain
• Young people’s perceptions of ‘risk’
• Risk and the demise of children’s play
• Children’s perceptions of risk on the road
• New technology and the legal implications for child protection
• Parenting and risk
• Meeting the needs of children whose parents have a serious drug problem
• Lives at risk: multiculturalism, young women and ‘honour’ killings
• Risk embodied? Growing up disabled
• Young women, sexual behaviour and sexual decision making
• Risk and resilience: a focus on sexually exploited young people
• In need of protection? Young refugees and risk
• Alcohol: protecting the young, protecting society
• The prevention of youth crime: a risky business?
• Index