In this cutting edge collection authors examine risk thinking in
a range of policy and practice contexts, including special needs
education, digital exclusion, domestic violence and abuse, child
protection and youth work. Four key interlinking themes emerge from
the chapters. The first is how, within a neoliberal context, risk
agendas can be used to justify and normalise the rationing and
targeting of services. The second theme demonstrates that the use
of such agendas can in themselves redefine what is constituted as
social problems, and how they are understood and responded to in
practice. Thirdly, it is clear welfare practice itself is being
re-structured and re-theorised to adapt and conform to the new
definitions and understandings that risk thinking has brought
about. Finally, the fourth theme illustrates how the use of risk as
a negative organising discourse is not inevitable but, in different
contexts, can create positive outcomes for service users,
practitioners and society.
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