Governing Generations and Protecting Children in the Nordic Context

Regulation and Cultural Change Across a Millennium

AvTimo Harrikari

Inbunden, Engelska, 2026

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Protecting children is one of the long-term functions of human communities. This book addresses the protection of children as a historical phenomenon and as part of a more general change to childhood and youth in the Nordic context, with a particular focus on Finland.Exploring how the forms of organising the protection of children have changed from the Middle Ages (c. 1100) to the present (2020s), as well as situating these developments within wider transformations in generational relations and their governance, this book draws on legislation and law-making documents as empirical indicators of changes in generational relations and the organisation of protection across time and place. The analysis is based on a theorisation of generational relations, through which governance is understood as the structuring of the relationship between adulthood and childhood within practices of protecting children.This book will be of interest to all scholars and students of social work, child welfare/protection, childhood studies and youth work, social policy and social welfare provision, as well as education and criminology.

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Utgivningsdatum:2026-10-26
Mått:156 x 234 x undefined mm
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Routledge Advances in Social Work
Antal sidor:306
Förlag:Taylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN:9781032945774

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Timo Harrikari is Professor of Social Work at the University of Helsinki, Finland. He is the author, editor or co-editor of Towards Glocal Social Work in the Era of Compressed Modernity; Social Work and Social Change. The Changing Societal Conditions of Social Work in Time and Space; and Social Work During COVID-19: Glocal Perspectives and Implications for the Future of Social Work, all published by Routledge.

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Section 1: Introduction 1.Framing the Longue Durée Section 2: Medieval Foundations: Kinship, Salvation, and Conditional Protection 2.Born into Order: Baptism, Lineage, and Half Wergild Section 3: Early Modern Transformations: Sin, Discipline, and Punitive Power 3.Governing Through Sin and Punishing: Disciplining, Shaming, and Capital Punishment Section 4: The Pre-Modern Reconfiguration: Law, Minority and Waiting Rooms of Adulthood 4.Recasting Childhood in Law: Criminal Law Reforms, the Erosion of Patria Potestas, and the Weak Will of ‘the Minor’ Section 5: The Rise and Consolidation of Modern Child Welfare 5.Making Children Governable: Social Defence, Protective Education and ‘Misbehaving’ Children 6.Biopolitics and the Nation: Heredity, Degeneration, and the Problem of the ‘Psychopath’ 7.Diagnosing Childhood: ‘Disturbed’ Children, ‘Maladjusted’ Youth, and Institutional Treatment 8.From Protection to Welfare: Civil Rights, Universalism, and the Reorganisation of Child Welfare Section 6: Toward Second Modernity? Rights, Risk, and Reconfiguration 9.The Abstract Child: Human Rights and the Radical Reconfiguration of Generational Relations 10.Governing Through Risk: Concern, Uncertainty, and Early Intervention 11.From Welfare to Safeguarding: Constitutionalisation and the Reprogramming of Child Welfare Section 7: Beyond Late Modernity? Crisis, Reaction, and Risk-Averse Governance 12.When System Fails: Continuous Moral Shock, Public Inquiries, and Risk-Averse Governance Section 8: Reconsidering the Longue Durée 13.How are Children Protected? Governing Generational Relations in the Longue Durée Epilogue