Description
| Product ID: | 9780367530723 |
| Product Form: | Hardback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Series: | Routledge Advances in Sociology |
| Title: | Governing Families |
| Subtitle: | Problematising Technologies in Social Welfare and Criminal Justice |
| Authors: | Author: Pamela Ugwudike, Rosalind Edwards |
| Page Count: | 122 |
| Subjects: | Social and ethical issues, Social issues & processes, Sociology: family and relationships, Juvenile offenders, Politics and government, Criminal justice law, Sociology: family & relationships, Juvenile offenders, Politics & government, Criminal justice law |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating This book provides a focused discussion of how families are governed through technologies. This book provides a focused discussion of how families are governed through technologies. It shows how states attempt to influence, shape and govern families as both the source of and solution to a range of social problems including crime. The book critically reviews family governance in contemporary neo-liberal society, notably through technologies of self-responsibilisation, biologisation, and artificial intelligence. The book draws attention to the poor working class and racialised families that often are marked out and evaluated as culpable, dysfunctional, and a threat to economic and social order, obscuring the structural inequalities that underpin family lives and discriminations that are built into the tools that identify and govern families. Filling a gap where disciplinary perspectives cross-cut, this book brings together sociological and criminological perspectives to provide a unique cross-disciplinary approach to the topic. It will be of interest to researchers, scholars and lecturers studying sociology and criminology, as well as policy-makers and professionals working in the fields of early years and family intervention programmes, including in social work, health, education, and the criminologically-relevant professions such as police and probation. |
| Imprint Name: | Routledge |
| Publisher Name: | Taylor & Francis Ltd |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2023-02-15 |
