Governing Risk Care and Control in Contemporary Social Work
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 wh
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GOVERNING
RISK Care and Control in Contemporary Social Work
Governing Risk
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Governing Risk Care and Control in Contemporary Social Work Mark Hardy University of York, UK
© Mark Hardy 2015 All rights reserved. No reproduction, copy or transmission of this publication may be made without written permission. No portion of this publication may be reproduced, copied or transmitted save with written permission or in accordance with the provisions of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988, or under the terms of any licence permitting limited copying issued by the Copyright Licensing Agency, Saffron House, 6–10 Kirby Street, London EC1N 8TS. Any person who does any unauthorized act in relation to this publication may be liable to criminal prosecution and civil claims for damages. The author has asserted his right to be identified as the author of this work in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. First published 2015 by PALGRAVE MACMILLAN Palgrave Macmillan in the UK is an imprint of Macmillan Publishers Limited, registered in England, company number 785998, of Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire RG21 6XS. Palgrave Macmillan in the US is a division of St Martin’s Press LLC, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10010. Palgrave Macmillan is the global academic imprint of the above companies and has companies and representatives throughout the world. Palgrave® and Macmillan® are registered trademarks in the United States, the United Kingdom, Europe and other countries.
ISBN 978-1-349-34931-9
ISBN 978-1-137-31351-5 (eBook)
DOI 10.1057/9781137313515 This book is printed on paper suitable for recycling and made from fully managed and sustained forest sources. Logging, pulping and manufacturing processes are expected to conform to the environmental regulations of the country of origin. A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. A catalog record for this book is available from the Library of Congress.
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Contents
Acknowledgements
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Introduction
1
1 Enduring Debates in Social Work
8
2 Accounting for the Rise of Risk
34
3 Mental Health Social Work – A Case in Point
52
4 The Probation Service – Pragmatism in Practice?
85
5 ‘An Analytics of Social Work’
124
6 A Technical Identity?
144
7 Risk, Uncertainty and Blame in Contemporary Practice
164
8 Conclusion – Doing Justice to Social Work
182
Bibliography
198
Index
220
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Acknowledgements I would like to thank the School of Healthcare at the University of Leeds for enabling me to complete the research project at the heart of this book. Thanks also to friends and colleagues, especially at the University of York, whose efforts to make sense of the world in which we live and work have informed my own. These include, but are by no means limited to, Ian Buchanan, Tony Evans, Sheila Fish, Hannah Jobling, Peter Knapp, Peter Morrall and Ian Shaw. Most of all, though, my love and thanks go to Lissie, Liv and Eddie, without whose love an
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