Family Policy and the Governance of Anti-Social Behaviour in the UK
Women's Experiences of Intensive Family Support
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2115252 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Sadie Parr (0000-0002-1538-4807, Sheffield Hallam University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2011 |
| Volume | 40 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 717-737 |
| Publication date | 2011-10-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Social Policy (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0047-2794 • E-ISSN: 1469-7823 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0047279410000735 |
| OpenAlex | W2138990415 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 17 |
| References cited | 23 |
In seeking to make sense of the role of intensive family support in the governance of anti-social behaviour, this paper focuses analytical attention on one case study project, the Family Support Service. It draws on interview material from five women whose experiences were tracked in repeat interviews over an 18-month period. The Family Support Service entailed intense surveillance and supervision of marginalised populations in domestic private spaces and did, therefore, have controlling and disciplinary qualities, particularly with regard to the families living in 'core' residential accommodation. Yet, in spite of this, the Family Support Service also contained a significant social welfare ethos based on finding long-term sustainable solutions to individuals' problems, not least security of housing and income. This paper argues that while we must confront the worrying and disconcerting aspects of intensive family support, the intervention might be conducive to helping disadvantaged and troubled families access better lives. There is a need for further research, however, about how to achieve less punitive types of family intervention and, therefore, how progressive change for vulnerable families might be generated
Business · Corporate governance · Disadvantaged · Economic growth · Economics · Ethos · Family life · Family support · Intervention (counseling) · Political science · Public relations · Service (business) · Social support · Sociology · Welfare · Gender Studies · Homelessness and Social Issues · Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism · Law · Marketing · Medicine · Nursing · Psychology · Social Policy and Reform Studies · Social Psychology · Social Work
Disciplinary Social Policy and the Failing Promise of the New Middle Classes
A Feminist Moral-Political Economy of Uneven Reform in Austerity Britain
Building Relationships in a Cold Climate
Dimensions of Family Empowerment in Work with So-Called ‘Troubled’ Families
Tracing an Ethic of Care in the Policy and Practice of the Troubled Families Programme
Some Useful Sources
Struggles and Silences
The use of family intervention projects to deal with anti-social behaviour
Children taken into care and custody and the ‘troubled families’ agenda in E ngland
Intensive intervention with families experiencing multiple and complex challenges
Integrating critical realist and feminist methodologies
Getting with the (troubled families) programme’
Troubled Families’ Programme in England
Using Part-Time Fostering as a Family Support Service
Troubled, Troubling or in Trouble
Prevalence of Adverse Childhood Experiences in a University Population
Domesticating the 'troubled family
The third way
The Politics of Crime and Community
Doing Feminist Research
Researching the Vulnerable
The Logic of Practice
Parent Education
Do We Need a ‘Naughty Step’? Rethinking the Parenting Order After Ten Years
Punishing Parents for the Crimes of their Children
Beyond ‘so what?’ criminology
Family Life and Family Support
Taking the blame and losing the home
Meeting parents’ needs? Discourses of ‘support’ and ‘inclusion’ in family policy
Sinbin' solutions
Childhood, parenting and early intervention
The `problem' of anti-social behaviour and the policy knowledge base
Children (but not women) first
Family Intervention Projects
Making 'Anti-Social Behaviour
Rethinking Family Support in the Current Policy Context
Sociological Practice
| Unique citing works | 17 |
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| Citations per year | 1,31 |
| Citation span | 2013 - 2021 (9) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 17 |