ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the key concepts discussed in the preceding chapter of this book. The book examines the ways in which child sexual abuse is rendered governable, and by exploring what happens when such governance is called into question. It discusses a number of different ways of theorising the public/private distinction and the relation between law and science. The book examines Foucault's analysis of liberalism as a rationality of rule enables us to reconceptualise the public/private distinction. It discusses important impact on ethical life also notes Habermas's proposals promise further to de-ethicalise expertise. The accounts of Cleveland and Orkney presented here have used Foucault's suggestions concerning the analysis of a problematisation. Foucault's argument concerning the simultaneously juridical and normalising character of modern political rationalities is not simply an argument about active versus passively dispensed rights.
