Governing Child Sexual Abuse: Negotiating the Boundaries of Public and Private, Law and Science

Governing Child Sexual Abuse: Negotiating the Boundaries of Public and Private, Law and Science
ISBN-10
1136208364
ISBN-13
9781136208362
Category
Social Science
Pages
256
Language
English
Published
2016-04-29
Publisher
Routledge
Author
Samantha Ashenden

Description

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.

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