caa a22 4500 386365598 CHVBK 20180307111931.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130s1989 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S0898588X00000614 doi S0898588X00000614 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S0898588X00000614 Polsky Andrew J. Hunter College, CUNY The Odyssey of the Juvenile Court: Policy Failure and Institutional Persistence in the Therapeutic State [Elektronische Daten] [Andrew J. Polsky] The human services have come to occupy a vital position in the modern welfare state, penetrating nearly all its activities and institutions. Beyond providing a minimum level of support, these services seek to restructure the behavior of their clients so they can better cope with the demands and challenges of modern life. To realize this goal social personnel employ an approach that can most accurately be defined as therapeutic: the situation of the client is viewed as a condition that must be diagnosed; the caseworker establishes a helping relationship; a suitable treatment plan is designed and implemented. Although the middle class voluntarily avails itself of therapeutic services, public intervention by social personnel has a distinctly lower-class bias and an authoritarian character. The middle class purchases therapeutic services from private providers. The state focuses on marginal populations and its subjects usually have no choice about assuming a client status. Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1989 Studies in American Political Development Cambridge University Press 3(1989), 157-198 0898-588X 3<157 1989 3 SAP https://doi.org/10.1017/S0898588X00000614 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0898588X00000614 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Polsky Andrew J. Hunter College, CUNY NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Studies in American Political Development Cambridge University Press 3(1989), 157-198 0898-588X 3<157 1989 3 SAP CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge