1st Edition
Governing Child Sexual Abuse Negotiating the Boundaries of Public and Private, Law and Science
By Samantha Ashenden
Copyright 2004
256 Pages
by
Routledge
256 Pages
by
Routledge
256 Pages
by
Routledge
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The turn of the 1990s saw a number of high profile public inquiries into the handling of child sexual abuse cases in Great Britain. In examines the implications of these inquiries on the regulation of relationships between families and the state, author Samantha Ashenden brings a number of contemporary debates in social and political theory to bear upon the governance of child sexual abuse.
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Introduction; Chapter 1 Child sexual abuse as a problem of governance; Part I Conceptual frameworks; Chapter 2 Dilemmas of liberalism; Chapter 3 From liberal to Critical Theory; Chapter 4 Reproblematising the governance of child sexual abuse; Part II Examining the governance of child sexual abuse; Chapter 5 Governmentality and liberal political reason; Chapter 6 Reconstructing the liberal governance of child sexual abuse; Chapter 7 Rearticulating the liberal governance of child sexual abuse; conclusion Conclusion;
Biography
Samantha Ashenden is Lecturer in Sociology in the School of Politics and Sociology at Birkbeck College, University of London.
