Secure accommodation in child care : between hospital and prison or thereabouts? / Robert Harris and Noel Timms.

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

For some children secure accommodation seems to be the only way to control their disparate number of "problems". But why is this so, and from what criteria do social work professionals decide that a child should be put into secure accommodation? In Secure Accommodation in Child Carethe authors use an empirical study of secure accommodation as a basis for an analysis of the relations between the state, the family and the "difficult" child. By looking at court procedures, social workers and the children themselves they explain how professionals and children make sense of their worlds, and how they translate that "sense" into personal or professional action.
Secure Accommodation in Child Careis essential reading for social service managers, social policy makers, social workers and health care professionals as well as for students and lecturers of social policy and social work.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

• Prologue (p. vii)
• Acknowledgements (p. xi)
• Part I Theoretical Background (p. 1)
• 1 Secure Accommodation Outlined (p. 3)
• 2 The State, the Family and the Child (p. 20)
• 3 Young Devils...Or Angels with Dirty Faces? (p. 49)
• Part II Secure Accommodation (p. 73)
• 4 Talking to the Experts (p. 75)
• 5 Secure Children? (p. 102)
• 6 Insecure Accommodations (p. 138)
• 7 What Is to Be Done? (p. 160)
• Secure Accommodation: Some Possible Ways Forward (p. 165)
• Appendix A (p. 173)
• Appendix B (p. 175)
• Appendix C (p. 177)
• Notes (p. 179)
• Bibliography (p. 183)
• Name Index (p. 191)
• Subject Index (p. 194)