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Catching a case: inequality and fear in New York City's child welfare system

By Lee , Tina

Book information

Publisher
Rutgers University Press
Year
2016
ISBN
9780813576145, 9780813576138, 9780813576152, 9780813576169, 0813576156, 0813576164
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
1 MB (1094596 bytes)
Pages
viii, 245 pages\258
Time added
2020-07-26 19:24:52
Child abuse;Child abuse--New York (State)--New Yor

Description

A history of child welfare in New York City -- The life of a child welfare case -- Fear and a system in crisis -- Policing versus helping child welfare -- Defining neglect and risk assessment in practice -- Power in child welfare: compliance and rights -- Re-creating stratified reproduction and system change.;Based on extensive research into the child welfare system in New York City, Catching a Case reveals that, in the face of draconian budget cuts and a political climate that blames the poor for their own poverty, child welfare practices have become punitive, focused on removing children from their families and on parental compliance with rules. Rather than provide needed help for family problems, case workers often hold parents to standards almost impossible for working-class and poor parents to meet.

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