The ethics of predictive risk modelling in the Aotearoa/New Zealand child welfare context : child abuse prevention or neo-liberal tool? Emily Keddell
By: Keddell, Emily
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ArticleSeries: Critical Social Policy.Publisher: Sage, 2015Subject(s): CHILD PROTECTION | INTERVENTION | PREDICTIVE RISK MODELLING | SOCIAL SERVICES | NEW ZEALAND | CHILD ABUSEOnline resources: Access the abstract
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Critical Social Policy, 2015, 35(1): 69-88Summary: This article explores the ethics of predictive risk modeling in a child welfare context. Tensions exist, including significant ethical problems such as use of information without consent, breaches of privacy and stigmatisation, without clear evidence of the benefits outweighing these costs. Broader implicit assumptions about the causes of child abuse and risk and their intersections with wider discursive, political and systems design contexts are discussed. (from the abstract)
Critical Social Policy, 2015, 35(1): 69-88
This article explores the ethics of predictive risk modeling in a child welfare context. Tensions exist, including significant ethical problems such as use of information without consent, breaches of privacy and stigmatisation, without clear evidence of the benefits outweighing these costs. Broader implicit assumptions about the causes of child abuse and risk and their intersections with wider discursive, political and systems design contexts are discussed. (from the abstract)
