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>