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

by Samantha Ashenden

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 041515894X
• ISBN13: 9780415158947
• Release Date: October 2003
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.77 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"