Grounding Security - Family, Insurance and the State (Paperback)

This book examines some of the mechanisms which are currently conceived as affording individual security. The idea of security includes emotional and financial components. These interconnect so that such common concepts as 'trust' in someone and 'care taking' include both ideas of emotional and financial support. State policies on security rest on perceptions of two other institutions, the family and insurance, both of which are subject to change. At one time the extended family was seen as a major security-providing institution, but the contemporary nuclear family is more fragile. The concept of insurance originally entailed ideas of community and mutual aid; however, the institution has developed, in its modern private form, as a profit-driven entity. This book addresses various uses of state power in providing security for individuals, and outlines different ways in which this can be done.

General

Imprint:	Routledge
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	October 2020
First published:	2006
Authors:	Carol Weisbrod
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	158
ISBN-13:	978-1-138-61983-8
Categories:	Books > Law > Laws of other jurisdictions & general law > Private, property, family law > Family law
LSN:	1-138-61983-3
Barcode:	9781138619838

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