Risk & Trust - Including or Excluding Citizens?

Zusammenfassung Explores whether the concept of risk has undermined our sense of trust in society! effectively eroding the definition of citizenship! marginalizing particular people and groups! needlessly heightening societal fears! and rendering invisible social inequalities. This work reveals a series of moral judgments about the constitution of risk. Informationen zum Autor The Law Commission of Canada is an independent federal law reform agency that advises Parliament on improving and modernizing Canadian laws. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: (i)Aaron Doyle(i) * Risk as a Technique of Governance in an era of Biotechnological Innovation: Implications for Democratic Citizenship and Strategies of Resistance (i)Dayna Nadine Scott (i)* A Paradigm of Exclusion: the Impact of the Risk society on Female Young Offenders (i)Christie Barron(i) * Growing Concerns: Prenatal Genetic Testing! Risk and Trust (i)Meredith Celene Schwartz(i) * From Universal to Conditional Risk Take-up: Welfare-to-Work and Its Impacts on Citizenship! Agency and Trust (i)Mark A. Schann(i) * Risk Management Related to New Technologies: the Case of Spam in Canada (i)Ghislain Thibault (i)* Children as Risk or Children at Risk? International Law! Child Soldiers and Citizenship: the Case of Sierra Leone (i)Augustine Park(i)

Product details

• Authors: Columbia University Press, Law Commission of Canada (EDT), LOXLEY
• Assisted by: Law Commission of Canada (Editor)
• Publisher: Paul & co. publishing corporat
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 28.09.2007
• EAN: 9781552662229
• ISBN: 978-1-55266-222-9
• No. of pages: 168
• Dimensions: 146 mm x 222 mm x 6 mm
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political system