Discovering" Risk
Subtitle: Social Research and Policy Making (Eruptions, V. 18.)
Publisher: Peter Lang Publishing
Published: April 2003
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 149
ISBN-13: 9780820458137
Subjects: Sociology - General; Social Science; Risk; Social policy; Social problems; Sociological aspects; Youth with social disabilities; Sociology
Description: "Anxiety about unemployment, homelessness, poverty and crime has always been around. Today, governments, experts and the media spend a lot of time talking about people at risk, the measurement and prediction of risk factors, encouraging resiliency and the need for early intervention. What are the politics, origins and meanings behind risk talk? Is the discovery and management of risk factors capable of offering real solutions? This book asks these questions by examining youth employment, homelessness and juvenile crime. It is a must-read for policy makers, human service workers, researchers and anyone interested in the key social issues of our time."--Jacket.