Violations of trust : how social and welfare institutions fail children and young people
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Violations of trust : how social and welfare institutions fail children and young people
(Welfare and society)
Ashgate, c2005
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  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
The past few decades have brought to light increasing evidence of systemic and repeated institutional abuse of children and young people in many western nations. Government enquiries, research studies and media reports have begun to highlight the widespread nature of sexual, physical and emotional abuse of vulnerable children and young people. However, while public attention has focused on 'episodic-dramatic' representations of institutional abuse, comparatively little emphasis has been given to the more mundane, routinized and systemic nature of abuse that has occurred. This book documents comprehensively a full range of abuse occurring in 'caring' and 'protective' institutions, with particular reference to the Australian case. The dominant theme is 'betrayal' and in particular the ways in which agencies charged with the care and protection of children and young people become the sites of abusive practices. The authors draw on a range of theoretical frameworks to explore issues of trust and betrayal in the context of the professional and ethical obligations which workers have to those in their charge. The authors argue that it is not sufficient merely to report on accounts of institutional abuse or the consequences of particular practices; rather it is necessary to locate the prevalence of institutional abuse in the wider context of institutional practices as they relate to the 'governance' of particular sections of the population.
Table of Contents
- Contents: Introduction: Government, trust and institutional harm, Judith Bessant, Richard Hil and Rob Watts
- Power and knowledge: the making and managing of the 'unfit', Susanne Davis
- Dangerousness, surveillance and the institutionalised mistrust of youth, Peter Kelly
- Trust, liberal governance and civilisation: the stolen generations, Robert Van Krieken
- Trust us: indigenous children and the state, Ruth Webber and Sharon Lacy
- 'White Australia' and the Third Reich: the history of child welfare, trust and racial government, 1930-1945, Rob Watts
- The abuse of young people in Australia and the conditions for restoring public trust, Judith Bessant and Richard Hil
- The lost children: child refugees, Moira Rayner
- The myth of ADHD: psychiatric oppression of children, Bob Jacobs
- Postscript: 'so how can we live together...?', Uschi Bay
- Index.
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