Catching a Case : : Inequality and Fear in New York City's Child Welfare System / / Tina Lee.
Influenced by news reports of young children brutalized by their parents, most of us see the role of child services as the prevention of severe physical abuse. But as Tina Lee shows in Catching a Case, most child welfare cases revolve around often ill-founded charges of neglect, and the parents swep...
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| Place / Publishing House: | New Brunswick, NJ : : Rutgers University Press, , [2016] ©2016 |
| Year of Publication: | 2016 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (258 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- 1. Introduction
- 2. A History of Child Welfare in New York City
- 3. The Life of a Child Welfare Case
- 4. Fear and a System in Crisis
- 5. Policing versus Helping in Child Welfare
- 6. Defining Neglect and Risk Assessment in Practice
- 7. Power in Child Welfare: Compliance and Rights
- 8. Re-creating Stratified Reproduction and System Change
- Notes
- References
- Index