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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Julkunen, Ilse
• Harder, Margit

Titel

From Prevention to Repression? -- Trends in Social Work in the Nordic Countries

Ist Teil von

• Nordisk sosialt arbeid (Trykt utg.), 2004-01, Vol.24 (1), p.34-48

Erscheinungsjahr

2004

Quelle

Sociological Abstracts

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• This article deals with current historical trends in social work -- the ideological changes that have taken place during recent years & how these changes have affected social work & the citizens for whom the welfare service is delivered. This issue is operationalized through showing how the characteristics of prevention have been replaced by reaction or repression in the welfare state. The argumentation builds on case descriptions from each Nordic country telling about repressive trends in housing, mental health, child care & poverty, areas where social workers deal with social problems & risks & with marginal groups that are vulnerable to political change in the welfare state. No causal mechanisms can be found, but the process in Scandinavia seems to hold one common feature, namely that vulnerable groups bear the consequences of a residually oriented welfare politics. 39 References. Adapted from the source document.