Vulnerability and Young People: Care and Social Control in Policy and Practice

Moves To Assist Or Protect The Vulnerable Now Play A Crucial Role In Welfare And Criminal Justice Processes. This Distinctive Book Brings Together Powerful Lived Realities Of Vulnerability With Academic And Practical Applications Of The Concept, Exploring The Implications Of A 'vulnerability Zeitgeist' In Policy And Practice. It Draws On In-depth Research With Marginalised Young People And Professionals Who Support Them To Question How Far The Rise Of Vulnerability Serves The Interests Of Those Who Are Most Disadvantaged. Illuminating Where Support Shades Into More Controlling Practices, The Book Is Important Reading For Scholars, Students And Policy-makers Interested In Exclusion, Precariousness, Deviance And Youth. -- The Vulnerability Zeitgeist -- Making Sense Of Vulnerability -- The Rise Of Vulnerability In Social Policy -- Vulnerability Management -- Vulnerable Young People's Lives -- Vulnerable Identities? -- The Social Mediation Of Vulnerability -- Vulnerability, Behavioural Regulation And 'revolting Subjects'. Kate Brown. Includes Bibliographic References (pages 207-233) And Index.