Governing Families: Problematising Technologies in Social Welfare and Criminal Justice

di Rosalind Edwards (Autore)

Pamela Ugwudike (Autore)

Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2023

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.

• Autore: Rosalind Edwards, Pamela Ugwudike
• Editore: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Collana: Routledge Advances in Sociology
• Anno: 2023
• Rilegatura: Hardback
• Pagine: 122 p.
• Dimensioni: 216 x 138 mm
• Peso: 258 gr.
• EAN: 9780367530723

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