Carole Smith
Biographic Data
| ID | 3975943 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Carole Smith |
| GIVEN NAMES | Carole |
| FAMILY NAME | Smith |
| SIGNATURE | SMITH C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Manchester |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 61 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1966 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Ethics in Social Work: A Context of Caring
Trust v Law: Promoting and Safeguarding Post‐Adoption Contact
For adopted children, arrangements are increasingly made for some form of continuing contact between adoptive and birth families. Supporters of such post‐adoption contact argue that it is so important for children's long‐term well‐being that legislation and judicial intervention should act to promote and enforce contact arrangements. Although legislation (Adoption and Children Act 2002) directs courts to consider contact before making a placement…
What is child protection? Historical and methodological issues in comparative research on lastensuojelu /child protection
This article addresses comparative research on what has come to be called, in (British) English, ‘child protection’ or, rather differently, in Finnish ‘ lastensuojelu ’. In developing a cross‐national research project on lastensuojelu /child protection practices in England and Finland, we found it necessary to go back a few steps, to address what might usually be considered as ‘background issues’. This article discusses the welfare state traditio…
Autopoietic Law and the ‘Epistemic Trap’: A Case Study of Adoption and Contact
This paper examines autopoietic theory with reference to functionally differentiated social sub‐systems, particularly law, science, and politics. It sets out to ‘test’ the practical relevance of autopoietic theory in relation to ongoing debates about post‐adoption contact and personal identity issues. Law has resisted social scientific pressure to regulate post‐adoption contact in the context of a social policy approach, which emphasizes the rela…
Trust and moral motivation: Redundant Resources in Health and Social Care
English The government's modernisation programme for health and social care has introduced institutional arrangements that are characteristic of ‘late modernity’. These support heightened surveillance of organisational performance and professional practice, increased bureaucratisation of operational arrangements, instrumental decision making about service provision and a drive to centralise consumer empowerment. Such developments are designed to …
The Sequestration of Experience: Rights Talk and Moral Thinking in 'Late Modernity
Giddens argues that modernity is characterized by the separation of time and space, by disembedding mechanisms and by institutional reflexivity. These characteristics combine with a dynamic pace and scope of change and contribute to modernity's emphasis on institutional control. Internally referential systems exclude those moral and existential issues that threaten 'ontological security'. Bauman similarly emphasizes modernity's passion for order …
The Children (Protection from Offenders) (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 1997: New alliances in the management of risk and uncertainty
A sociological interest in the characteristics of 'late modernity'has encouraged debate about the nature of risk and uncertainty. Sociologists and some social work academics argue that risk as a calculative capacity to predict probable outcomes, does not accurately reflect current social conditions. These are better described in terms of uncertainty, and a reliance upon risk is grounded in an illusory confidence in expert knowledge. This paper ar…
The Children (Protection from Offenders) (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 1997: New alliances in the management of risk and uncertainty
The Sovereign State v Foucault: Law and Disciplinary Power
A Foucauldian analysis of discourse and power relations suggests that law and the juridical field have lost their pre-eminent role in government via the delegated exercise of sovereign power. According to Foucault, the government of a population is achieved through the wide dispersal of technologies of power which are relatively invisible and which function in discursive sites and practices throughout the social fabric. Expert knowledge occupies …
Children's rights: Have carers abandoned values
Traditionally, social workers have been concerned about the importance of values as significantly influencing professional practice. It is argued here that the emphasis on values has latterly been superseded by a focus on rights. This shift in perspective has come to characterise the activities of social workers and ‘professional’ carers such as foster and residential carers, and is related to a growing concentration on the externally measurable …
Children's rights: Have carers abandoned values
Traditionally, social workers have been concerned about the importance of values as significantly influencing professional practice. It is argued here that the emphasis on values has latterly been superseded by a focus on rights. This shift in perspective has come to characterise the activities of social workers and ‘professional’ carers such as foster and residential carers, and is related to a growing concentration on the externally measurable …
Disabling Autonomy: The Role of Government, the Law, and the Family
Disabling Autonomy: The Role of Government, the Law, and the Family
Secure accommodation under the Children Act 1989: Legislative confusion and social ambivalence
This paper explores the relationship between the general principles set out in section 1 of the Children Act 1989 and what may be identified as the ‘relevant criteria’ about which a court must be satisfied before it makes an order to place, or more usually to keep, a young person in secure accommodation under section 25 of the Act. This area has seen contradictory decisions in appeals from the Family Proceedings Courts and confusion about the rol…
Not Just about Law
Challenging Policy and Practice
Protecting Abused and Neglected Children
The Crisis of Childlessness
Barnardo's Professional Fostering
Social Workers in Hospitals: Misplaced Intruders or Essential Experts
Race, sex, and belief as determinants of friendship acceptance
Values, Status, and Professors
Using ratio methods developed in psychophysics, the determinants of local and professional status of professors were investigated. Local status among graduate students increased as teaching ability and professorial demeanor (outside the classroom) increased. Professional status increased with merit of publication, merit of teaching, negative cordiality (maintaining appropriate social distance), and length of service or experience in the disciplin…
Trust and moral motivation: Redundant Resources in Health and Social Care
English The government's modernisation programme for health and social care has introduced institutional arrangements that are characteristic of ‘late modernity’. These support heightened surveillance of organisational performance and professional practice, increased bureaucratisation of operational arrangements, instrumental decision making about service provision and a drive to centralise consumer empowerment. Such developments are designed to …
What is child protection? Historical and methodological issues in comparative research on lastensuojelu /child protection
This article addresses comparative research on what has come to be called, in (British) English, ‘child protection’ or, rather differently, in Finnish ‘ lastensuojelu ’. In developing a cross‐national research project on lastensuojelu /child protection practices in England and Finland, we found it necessary to go back a few steps, to address what might usually be considered as ‘background issues’. This article discusses the welfare state traditio…
Values, Status, and Professors
Using ratio methods developed in psychophysics, the determinants of local and professional status of professors were investigated. Local status among graduate students increased as teaching ability and professorial demeanor (outside the classroom) increased. Professional status increased with merit of publication, merit of teaching, negative cordiality (maintaining appropriate social distance), and length of service or experience in the disciplin…
The Sovereign State v Foucault: Law and Disciplinary Power
A Foucauldian analysis of discourse and power relations suggests that law and the juridical field have lost their pre-eminent role in government via the delegated exercise of sovereign power. According to Foucault, the government of a population is achieved through the wide dispersal of technologies of power which are relatively invisible and which function in discursive sites and practices throughout the social fabric. Expert knowledge occupies …
Race, sex, and belief as determinants of friendship acceptance
The Sequestration of Experience: Rights Talk and Moral Thinking in 'Late Modernity
Giddens argues that modernity is characterized by the separation of time and space, by disembedding mechanisms and by institutional reflexivity. These characteristics combine with a dynamic pace and scope of change and contribute to modernity's emphasis on institutional control. Internally referential systems exclude those moral and existential issues that threaten 'ontological security'. Bauman similarly emphasizes modernity's passion for order …
Ethics in Social Work: A Context of Caring
Trust v Law: Promoting and Safeguarding Post‐Adoption Contact
For adopted children, arrangements are increasingly made for some form of continuing contact between adoptive and birth families. Supporters of such post‐adoption contact argue that it is so important for children's long‐term well‐being that legislation and judicial intervention should act to promote and enforce contact arrangements. Although legislation (Adoption and Children Act 2002) directs courts to consider contact before making a placement…
The Children (Protection from Offenders) (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 1997: New alliances in the management of risk and uncertainty
A sociological interest in the characteristics of 'late modernity'has encouraged debate about the nature of risk and uncertainty. Sociologists and some social work academics argue that risk as a calculative capacity to predict probable outcomes, does not accurately reflect current social conditions. These are better described in terms of uncertainty, and a reliance upon risk is grounded in an illusory confidence in expert knowledge. This paper ar…
Secure accommodation under the Children Act 1989: Legislative confusion and social ambivalence
This paper explores the relationship between the general principles set out in section 1 of the Children Act 1989 and what may be identified as the ‘relevant criteria’ about which a court must be satisfied before it makes an order to place, or more usually to keep, a young person in secure accommodation under section 25 of the Act. This area has seen contradictory decisions in appeals from the Family Proceedings Courts and confusion about the rol…
The Crisis of Childlessness
Values, Status, and Professors
Using ratio methods developed in psychophysics, the determinants of local and professional status of professors were investigated. Local status among graduate students increased as teaching ability and professorial demeanor (outside the classroom) increased. Professional status increased with merit of publication, merit of teaching, negative cordiality (maintaining appropriate social distance), and length of service or experience in the disciplin…
Race, sex, and belief as determinants of friendship acceptance
Social Workers in Hospitals: Misplaced Intruders or Essential Experts
Barnardo's Professional Fostering
The Crisis of Childlessness
Protecting Abused and Neglected Children
Challenging Policy and Practice
Secure accommodation under the Children Act 1989: Legislative confusion and social ambivalence
This paper explores the relationship between the general principles set out in section 1 of the Children Act 1989 and what may be identified as the ‘relevant criteria’ about which a court must be satisfied before it makes an order to place, or more usually to keep, a young person in secure accommodation under section 25 of the Act. This area has seen contradictory decisions in appeals from the Family Proceedings Courts and confusion about the rol…
Not Just about Law
Children's rights: Have carers abandoned values
Traditionally, social workers have been concerned about the importance of values as significantly influencing professional practice. It is argued here that the emphasis on values has latterly been superseded by a focus on rights. This shift in perspective has come to characterise the activities of social workers and ‘professional’ carers such as foster and residential carers, and is related to a growing concentration on the externally measurable …
Children's rights: Have carers abandoned values
Traditionally, social workers have been concerned about the importance of values as significantly influencing professional practice. It is argued here that the emphasis on values has latterly been superseded by a focus on rights. This shift in perspective has come to characterise the activities of social workers and ‘professional’ carers such as foster and residential carers, and is related to a growing concentration on the externally measurable …
Disabling Autonomy: The Role of Government, the Law, and the Family
Disabling Autonomy: The Role of Government, the Law, and the Family
The Children (Protection from Offenders) (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 1997: New alliances in the management of risk and uncertainty
A sociological interest in the characteristics of 'late modernity'has encouraged debate about the nature of risk and uncertainty. Sociologists and some social work academics argue that risk as a calculative capacity to predict probable outcomes, does not accurately reflect current social conditions. These are better described in terms of uncertainty, and a reliance upon risk is grounded in an illusory confidence in expert knowledge. This paper ar…
The Children (Protection from Offenders) (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 1997: New alliances in the management of risk and uncertainty
The Sovereign State v Foucault: Law and Disciplinary Power
A Foucauldian analysis of discourse and power relations suggests that law and the juridical field have lost their pre-eminent role in government via the delegated exercise of sovereign power. According to Foucault, the government of a population is achieved through the wide dispersal of technologies of power which are relatively invisible and which function in discursive sites and practices throughout the social fabric. Expert knowledge occupies …
The Sequestration of Experience: Rights Talk and Moral Thinking in 'Late Modernity
Giddens argues that modernity is characterized by the separation of time and space, by disembedding mechanisms and by institutional reflexivity. These characteristics combine with a dynamic pace and scope of change and contribute to modernity's emphasis on institutional control. Internally referential systems exclude those moral and existential issues that threaten 'ontological security'. Bauman similarly emphasizes modernity's passion for order …
What is child protection? Historical and methodological issues in comparative research on lastensuojelu /child protection
This article addresses comparative research on what has come to be called, in (British) English, ‘child protection’ or, rather differently, in Finnish ‘ lastensuojelu ’. In developing a cross‐national research project on lastensuojelu /child protection practices in England and Finland, we found it necessary to go back a few steps, to address what might usually be considered as ‘background issues’. This article discusses the welfare state traditio…
Autopoietic Law and the ‘Epistemic Trap’: A Case Study of Adoption and Contact
This paper examines autopoietic theory with reference to functionally differentiated social sub‐systems, particularly law, science, and politics. It sets out to ‘test’ the practical relevance of autopoietic theory in relation to ongoing debates about post‐adoption contact and personal identity issues. Law has resisted social scientific pressure to regulate post‐adoption contact in the context of a social policy approach, which emphasizes the rela…
Trust and moral motivation: Redundant Resources in Health and Social Care
English The government's modernisation programme for health and social care has introduced institutional arrangements that are characteristic of ‘late modernity’. These support heightened surveillance of organisational performance and professional practice, increased bureaucratisation of operational arrangements, instrumental decision making about service provision and a drive to centralise consumer empowerment. Such developments are designed to …
Trust v Law: Promoting and Safeguarding Post‐Adoption Contact
For adopted children, arrangements are increasingly made for some form of continuing contact between adoptive and birth families. Supporters of such post‐adoption contact argue that it is so important for children's long‐term well‐being that legislation and judicial intervention should act to promote and enforce contact arrangements. Although legislation (Adoption and Children Act 2002) directs courts to consider contact before making a placement…
Ethics in Social Work: A Context of Caring
Sociology (16 works) · Political science (14 works) · Law (12 works) · Law (11 works) · Psychology (11 works) · Business (6 works) · Child Welfare and Adoption (6 works) · Social Work Education and Practice (6 works) · Homelessness and Social Issues (4 works) · Child protection (3 works)