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Direct linkChild & Youth Services, 2007
There are irreconcilable and contested positions taken around the definition and understanding of risk. The purpose of this chapter is to locate risk discourse more solidly in a social scientific framework by providing an historical analysis of literature dealing with risk drawing from the fields of risk assessment and, later, the social sciences…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Social Sciences, Social Scientists, Social Theories
