ABSTRACT
In this final chapter, we revisit the range of technologies of governing families as sources of and solutions to social and criminological harms that we have reviewed in the book, illuminated by our combined lenses of ‘what the problem is represented to be’ and ‘construction of the object.’ We consider whether the technologies of stigma and labelling, biologisation, assessment of risk, and predictive risk modelling cumulatively represent continuity in modes of social welfare and criminal justice governance, or whether there has been a change over time in how families are problematised and constructed as objects. We also consider what current technologies of governing families might indicate for directions that these may take in the future.
