Risk and the regulation of youth(ful) identities in an age of manufactured uncertainty
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posted on 1998-01-01, 00:00authored byPeter Kelly
Examines the benefits and dangers of allowing experts to intervene in the lives of youth, and their families, on the basis of assessing them as being at-risk. Highlights the dangers of expert promises to prevent risk by intervening in people's lives on the basis of what is perceived to be normal or good.