2016 | OriginalPaper | Chapter
Social Work Law: Critical Perspectives
Published in:
Practising Social Work Law
In debates about the relationship between social work and the law, law is often presented as a clear set of rules of self-evident and unquestionable integrity, which needs only to be negotiated with technical skill for helpful solutions to emerge. This chapter challenges this view of the law as firm ground, and likens it instead to shifting sand, the reflection of dominant ideologies, attitudes and values which themselves evolve over time in response to complex social and political pressures.