55 THREE Risk Risk (noun): a situation involving exposure to danger; the possibility that something unpleasant or unwelcome will happen. Risky (adjective): full of the possibility of danger, failure, or loss. (Oxford English Dictionary) In this second of two chapters exploring the ways that young people and professionals made sense of how and why sexual exploitation happens, the discussion moves to a consideration of ‘risk’ and ‘risky behaviours’ in the context of those vulnerabilities previously discussed. Young people’s risk to sexual exploitation is
Alongside the current media public preoccupation with high-risk offenders, there has been a shift towards a greater focus on risk and public protection in UK criminal justice policy. Much of the academic debate has centered on the impact of the risk paradigm on adult offender management services; less attention has been given to the arena of youth justice and young adults. Yet, there are critical questions for both theory - are the principles of risk management the same when working with young people? - and practice - how can practitioners respond to those young people who cause serious harm to others? - that need to be considered.
The distinguished contributors to “Young people and ‘risk’" consider risk not only in terms of public protection but also in terms of young people’s own vulnerability to being harmed (either by others or through self-inflicted behaviour). One of the report’s key objectives is to explore the links between these two distinct, but related, aspects of risk.
“Growing up with risk” provides a critical analysis of ways in which risk assessment and management - now a pervasive element of contemporary policy and professional practice - are defined and applied in policy, theory and practice in relation to children and young people.
Drawing on conceptual frameworks from across the social sciences, the book examines contrasting perspectives on risk that occur in different policy domains and professional and lay discourses, discussing the dilemmas of response that arise from these sometimes contested viewpoints - from playground safety to risks associated with youthful substance use. The contributors address issues of gender, ethnicity and socio-economic status which impact on definitions and responses to risk, and consider related concepts, such as ‘risk-resilience’, care-control’ and ‘dependence-autonomy’.
Written in an accessible manner, each chapter provides a specific policy case study to illustrate the cross-cutting themes and issues that will make it a key text for researchers and students. It also offers policy makers and practitioners a valuable insight into the complexities of balancing responsibility for protecting the young with the benefits of risk taking and the need to allow young people to experiment.
Risk has emerged as a key mechanism for controlling the future and learning from past misfortunes.
How did risk influence policy makers’ responses to COVID-19? How will they be judged for their decisions?
Drawing on case studies from the UK, China, Japan, New Zealand and the US, this original text explores policy responses to COVID-19 through the lens of risk. The book considers how different countries framed the pandemic, categorised their populations and communicated risk. It also evaluates the role of the media, conspiracy theories and hindsight in shaping responses to COVID-19.
As we reflect on the ‘first wave’, this book offers a vital resource for anticipating future responses to crises.
Substance misuse (including alcohol) and mental health problems constitute a significant proportion of the work carried out in the criminal justice system. Approaches to these often intractable problems have seen the rise of a dominant risk paradigm concerned with public protection and the use of coercion through court orders to access treatment. This original and valuable book considers notions of risk and rehabilitation in detail within the practice of those court orders, whilst contextualising them within a wider comparative literature and research base. The efficacy of these approaches, practice issues and innovations including for example therapeutic jurisprudence are analysed. Risk and rehabilitation also includes discussions of the implications for partnership working and the importance of reconfiguring the nature of rehabilitative relationships. This is a timely book as probation practice in the UK and elsewhere moves into a post ‘what works’ era, providing opportunities to review the evidence base for effective interventions.
337 10 Women at Risk Many of the diagnostic judgements made by both experienced and inexperienced individuals will continue to be based on incomplete and imprecise characterization of individual women and babies. (Mohide and Grant 1989: 67) The term ‘risk’ is ... vague and undefined. (Alexander and Keirse 1989: 346) This chapter moves on from the case-study material for the four women presented in chapter 8 and the quantitative findings relating to pregnancy ‘outcome’ discussed in chapter 9 to attempt a synthesis of how all the women in the study regarded
at Southville CMHT and within inpatient services. It illustrates how a defensive institutional culture around risk management generates tendencies towards what is called ‘custodial paternalism’. It also examines how this marginalises considerations on the effects of racialised inequalities. Upton Ward at the Middletown Centre Mental Health Unit Many of the events in this chapter took place on ‘Upton’ Ward, part of the ‘Middletown Centre’ Mental Health Unit at ‘Westside Park’ Hospital 1 . The hospital is an NHS facility providing adult and older persons
Risk assessment and risk management: the right approach? Hazel Kemshall Introduction and context The ‘risk business’ has been described as one of the world’s largest industries (Adams, 1995), characterised by phenomenal growth and net widening. Crime management has been no exception, with risk forming a key ingredient of penal policy in recent years (see Kemshall, 2003 and 2006 for a full review). In the adult arena this has seen increased attention to the ‘community protection model’ (Connelly and Williamson, 2000), with an emphasis upon public protection
251 Voluntary Sector Review • vol 7 • no 3 • 251–67 • © Policy Press 2016 • #VSR Print ISSN 2040 8056 • Online ISSN 2040 8064 • http://dx.doi.org/10.1332/204080516X14722016138784 Accepted for publication 15 August 2016 • First published online 02 September 2016 Risk perception and management in development philanthropy Adrian Sargeant, adrian.sargeant@plymouth.ac.uk Jen Shang, jen.shang@plymouth.ac.uk Plymouth University, UK For the research on which this article is based, twenty philanthropists, who devoted personal wealth in excess of $5 million to create
