Child Abuse in Risk Society (Symposium: Risk Society and Crime)

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  • リスク社会における児童虐待 (I 課題研究 リスク社会と犯罪)
  • リスク社会における児童虐待--心理と保険数理のハイブリッド統治
  • リスク シャカイ ニ オケル ジドウ ギャクタイ シンリ ト ホケン スウリ ノ ハイブリッド トウチ
  • 心理と保険数理のハイブリッド統治
  • Hybrid Psychological/Actuarial Governmentality

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In his classic study of "From Dangerousness to Risk," Robert Castel has delineated that the disciplinary type of technology where there is excessive concern with individuals through correction or normalization of the deviant has been superseded by post-disciplinary actuarial risk technology where there is little concern with individuals with the focus being cast on aggregates or on the population. On the other hand it has also been pointed out by others that the actuarial coexists with the disciplinary technology. This paper illustrates how the two types interrelate with each other in the domain of Japanese child abuse prevention policies. Specifically, through the rise of social awareness on child abuse problems, psychological techniques such as counseling and behavioral therapies targeting moral and/or attitudinal change have emerged. At the same time, risk assessment technology has become dominant in contemporary child abuse prevention policies. In short, the policies are becoming psychological as well as actuarial. Implied from Hannah-Moffat's analysis on "hybrid moral/actuarial penalty," this paper will discuss the psychological/actuarial governmentality exemplified in Japanese child abuse prevention policies.

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