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Assuming that "marginal" 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 "normalized." But "normalize," to Andrew Polsky, is a term that "jars the ear, as well it should when we consider what this effort is all...
About the Author
Andrew J. Polsky is Associate Professor of Political Science at Hunter College and the Graduate School, City University of New York.
Review
"A compelling history of the casework approach to poverty in America."---Lawrence M. Mead, Journal of Politics
"Polsky is irreverent, ironic, and antiorthodox. . . . [He] makes a convincing case for viewing therapeutic activists as sophisticated operators on the power-seeking stage. . . . He raises troublesome questions about the ultimate nature of the therapeutic enterprise, especially about its social control features."---Laura Epstein, Social Service Review
"Polsky powerfully describes how well-intentioned welfare...
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- PublisherPrinceton University Press
- Publication date1991
- ISBN 10 0691078785
- ISBN 13 9780691078786
- BindingHardcover
- LanguageEnglish
- Edition number1
- Number of pages310
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