Governing Families

<p>This book provides a focused discussion of how families are governed through technologies. It shows how states attempt to influence, shape and govern families as both the source of and solution to a range of social problems including crime.</p><p>The book critically reviews family governance in contemporary neo-liberal society, notably through technologies of self-responsibilisation, biologisation, and artificial intelligence. The book draws attention to the poor working class and racialised families that often are marked out and evaluated as culpable, dysfunctional, and a threat to economic and social order, obscuring the structural inequalities that underpin family lives and discriminations that are built into the tools that identify and govern families.</p><p>Filling a gap where disciplinary perspectives cross-cut, this book brings together sociological and criminological perspectives to provide a unique cross-disciplinary approach to the topic. It will be of interest to researchers, scholars and lecturers studying sociology and criminology, as well as policy-makers and professionals working in the fields of early years and family intervention programmes, including in social work, health, education, and the criminologically-relevant professions such as police and probation.</p> <p>1. Governing Families Through Technologies: An Introduction </p><p>2. Self-Governance and Intergenerationality: Stigma and Labelling </p><p>3. Biologisation, Brain Science and Adverse Childhood Experiences </p><p>4. Assessing and Managing Families: Risk </p><p>5. Governance by Artificial Intelligence (AI): Predictive Risk Modelling </p><p>6. Governing Families through Technologies: A Conclusion </p>