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Growing up with risk / edited by Betsy Thom, Rosemary Sales and Jenny J. Pearce.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Child welfare--Great Britain.
- Child welfare.
- Child development--Great Britain.
- Child development.
- Great Britain--Social policy.
- Great Britain.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (x, 284 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Bristol, U.K. : Policy, 2007.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This book provides a critical analysis of ways in which risk assessment and management are defined and applied in policy, theory and practice in relation to children and young people. It explores the complexities of balancing responsibility for protecting the young with the benefits of risk-taking and the need to allow experimentation.
- Contents:
- Mothering, deprivation and the formation of child psychoanalysis in Britain / Julia Borossa
- Young people's perceptions of 'risk' / Jenni Ward with Mariana Bayley
- Risk and the demise of children's play / David Ball
- Children's perceptions of risk on the road / Kenneth Lupton and Mariana Bayley
- New technology and the legal implications for child protection / Alan S. Reid
- Parenting and risk / Rachel Hek
- Meeting the needs of children whose parents have a serious drug problem / Neil McKeganey and Marina Barnard
- Lives at risk : multiculturalism, young women and 'honour' killings / Veena Meetoo and Heidi Safia Mirza
- Risk embodied? : growing up disabled / Lesley Jordan and Rosemary Sales
- Young women, sexual behaviour and sexual decision making / Lesley Hoggart
- Risk and resilience : a focus on sexually exploited young people / Jenny J. Pearce
- In need of protection? : young refugees and risk / Rosemary Sales
- Alcohol : protecting the young, protecting society / Betsy Thom
- Prevention of youth crimes : a risky business? / David Porteous.
- Notes:
- Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 15 Sep 2022).
- Includes bibliography and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786611741570
- 9781447302469
- 144730246X
- 9781281741578
- 1281741574
- 9781847422385
- 1847422381
- OCLC:
- 476249620
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