Political Science

The Rise of the Therapeutic State

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Jul 26, 1993
1991
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Assuming that 鈥渕arginal鈥 citizens cannot govern their own lives, proponents of the therapeutic state urge casework intervention to reshape the attitudes and behaviors of those who live outside the social mainstream. Thus the victims of poverty, delinquency, family violence, and other problems are to be 鈥渘ormalized.鈥 But 鈥渘ormalize,鈥 to Andrew Polsky, is a term that 鈥渏ars the ear, as well it should when we consider what this effort is all about.鈥 Here he investigates the broad network of public agencies that adopt the casework approach.