1st Edition
Secure Accommodation in Child Care 'Between Hospital and Prison or Thereabouts?'
208 Pages
by
Routledge
208 Pages
by
Routledge
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For some children secure accommodation seems to be the only way to control their disparate number of "problems". But why is this so, and from what criteria do social work professionals decide that a child should be put into secure accommodation? In Secure Accommodation in Child Care the authors use an empirical study of secure accommodation as a basis for an analysis of the relations between the... Read more
Part I Theoretical background; Chapter 1 Secure accommodation outlined; Chapter 2 The state, the family and the child; Chapter 3 Young devils … or angels with dirty faces?; Part 2 Secure accommodation; Chapter 4 Talking to the experts; Chapter 5 Secure children?; Chapter 6 Insecure accommodations; Chapter 7 What is to be done?;
Biography
Robert Harris is Professor of Social Work in the University of Hull,
Noel Timms, recently retired, is Emeritus Professor of the University of Leicester.
