ABSTRACT
In this final chapter of Part 1 of the book, Firmin introduces the reader to various theoretical frameworks that she has used to design and test Contextual Safeguarding: all of which shine a light on context. The principal theorist considered is Pierre Bourdieu, and his ideas of capital, social field, and habitus that help to explain how Malik and Sara (introduced in chapter 2) experienced the social world. Building on this foundation ideas from community, social justice, and ecological models of social work, public health approaches to violence reduction and situational crime prevention all have something to offer to elements of the challenge at hand. Some provide routes to thinking about contextual intervention; others provide a home in social work for a more contextual child protection response to extra-familial abuse. When combined, they offer a hybrid scaffold upon which to hang the ideas that Firmin develops across the following three parts of the book.
