Violations of trust : how social and welfare institutions fail children and young people / edited by Judith Bessant, Richard Hil, Rob Watts.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bessant, Judith.

Hil, Richard, 1953-

Watts, Rob.

Series:

Welfare and society.

Welfare and Society

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Indigenous children.

Youth, Aboriginal Australian.

Children--Institutional care--Australia.

Children.

Child welfare workers--Malpractice--Australia.

Child welfare workers.

Child abuse.

Youth--Crimes against.

Youth.

Child welfare workers--Malpractice.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (180 pages).

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon : Routledge, 2016.

Summary:

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 way...Source: Publisher

Contents:

1. Power and knowledge : the making and managing of the 'unfit' / Susanne Davies

2. Dangerousness, surveillance and the institutionalised mistrust of youth / Peter Kelly

3. Trust, liberal governance and civilisation : the stolen generations / Robert van Krieken

4. Trust us : indigenous children and the state / Ruth Weber and Sharon Lacey

5. 'White Australia' and the Third Reich : the history of child welfare, trust and racial government, 1930-1945 / Rob Watts

6. Abuse of young people in Australia and the conditions for restoring public trust / Judith Bessant and Richard Hil

7. The lost children : child refugees / Moira Rayner

8. The myth of ADHD : psychiatric oppression of children / Bob Jacobs.

Notes:

First published 2005 by Ashgate Publishing.

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781315235011

1315235013

9781351875776

1351875779

9781351875783

1351875787

OCLC:

990426607