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Governing Child Sexual Abuse

Negotiating the Boundaries of Public and Private, Law and Science

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Published: 9th December 2003
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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.

In particular, drawing on the work of Foucault and Habermas, Ashenden looks at:
* how to analyze the boundary between public and private spheres
* the legal and scientific determination of legitimate intervention
* the relationship between democracy and expertise in the governance of social life.
Timely and topical, this book will be of particular interest to scholars and students of social and political theory, political sociology, the sociology of law, and social policy.

Acknowledgements
Introduction
Child Sexual Abuse as a Problem of Governance
Conceptual Frameworks
Dilemmas of Liberalism: Child, Family and State Through the Public/Private Distinction
From Liberal to Critical Theory: Child, Family and State Through the System/Lifeworld Distinction
Reproblematising the Governance of Child Sexual Abuse: Foucault's Practice of Social Criticism
Examining the Governance of Child Sexual Abuse
Governmentality and Liberal Political Reason
Reconstructing the Liberal Governance of Child Sexual Abuse: the Public Inquiry into Cleveland 1987
Rearticulating the Liberal Governance of Child Sexual Abuse: the Press and Orkney 1991
Conclusion
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ISBN: 9780415158930
ISBN-10: 0415158931
Audience: Professional
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Number Of Pages: 256
Published: 9th December 2003
Dimensions (cm): 23.4 x 15.6  x 1.9
Weight (kg): 0.52