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Secure Accommodation in Child Care - 'Between Hospital and Prison or Thereabouts?' (Paperback)
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Secure Accommodation in Child Care - 'Between Hospital and Prison or Thereabouts?' (Paperback)
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Some children seem to present parents, teachers, social workers and
courts with such serious or disparate problems that holding them in
secure accommodation is apparently the only way to control them.
How this comes about, and by what criteria social workers and
courts help them make these difficult decisions, are the subjects
of this intriguing and innovative book. In "Secure Accommodation in
Child Care", Harris and Timms use a major empirical study of
children in secure accommodation as a basis for an analysis of
relations between the state, the family and the "difficult" child.
By synthesizing literary and social science theories, they examine
court procedures and the experiences of social workers and the
children themselves to explain how professionals and children make
sense of their respective worlds, and how that "sense" is
translated into personal or professional action. The functions of
secure accommodation, although legally ascribed, are fundamentally
ambigous; to "lock-up" children by means of an authorized strategy
which embraces both the "sick" and the "wicked" suggests the
existence of a less than obvious relation between meeting "needs",
and furthering "interests".
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