| Description |
1 online resource (viii, 245 pages) |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-232) and index. |
| Contents |
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. |
| Summary |
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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Language |
English. |
| Subject |
Child welfare -- New York (State) -- New York.
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Child welfare. |
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New York (State) -- New York. |
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Child abuse -- New York (State) -- New York.
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Child abuse. |
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Low-income parents -- New York (State) -- New York.
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Low-income parents. |
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Social service -- New York (State) -- New York.
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Family services -- New York (State) -- New York.
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Discrimination -- New York (State) -- New York.
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Social service. |
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Family services. |
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Security. |
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Discrimination. |
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Services & Welfare. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Lee, Tina, 1976- Catching a case. New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, [2016] 9780813576145 (DLC) 2015028620 (OCoLC)927165984 |
| ISBN |
9780813576169 (electronic book) |
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0813576164 (electronic book) |
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9780813576152 (e-book (epub) |
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0813576156 (e-book (epub) |
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9780813576145 |
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0813576148 |
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9780813576138 |
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081357613X |
| Standard No. |
10.36019/9780813576169 |
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