Violations of Trust : How Social and Welfare Institutions Fail Children and Young People.

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Government, Trust and Institutional Harm -- 1 Power and Knowledge: The Making and Managing of the 'Unfit' -- 2 Dangerousness, Surveillance and the Institutionalised Mistrust of Youth -- 3 Trust, Liberal Governance and Civilisation: The Stolen Generations -- 4 Trust Us: Indigenous Children and the State -- 5 'White Australia' and the Third Reich: The History of Child Welfare, Trust and Racial Government, 1930-1945 -- 6 Abuse of Young People in Australia and the Conditions for Restoring Public Trust -- 7 The Lost Children: Child Refugees -- 8 The Myth of ADHD: Psychiatric Oppression of Children -- Postscript: 'So How Can We Live Together ...?' -- Index.

The past few decades have brought to light increasing evidence of systemic and repeated institutional abuse of children and young people in many western nations. This book documents comprehensively a full range of abuse occurring in 'caring' and 'protective' institutions, with particular reference to the Australian case. The dominant theme is 'betrayal' and, in particular, the ways in which agencies charged with the care and protection of children and young people become the sites of abusive practices.

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