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Author Swift, Karen.

Title At risk : social justice in child welfare and other human services / Karen J. Swift and Marilyn Callahan.

Publication Info. Toronto ; Buffalo, NY : University of Toronto Press, [2009]
©2009

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Description 1 online resource (x, 285 pages)
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-265) and index.
Contents pt. I. The social relations of risk ; From social to individual risk ; Risk and social welfare ; The entrenchment of risk assessment in human services -- pt. II. The institutional world ; In the name of risk ; Reducing whose risk? -- pt. III. 'What have they thought of now?'.
Summary In At Risk, Karen J. Swift and Marilyn Callahan examine risk and risk assessment in the context of professional practice in child protection, social work, and other human services.
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Subject Child welfare -- Canada -- Case studies.
Child welfare.
Canada.
Genre/Form Case studies.
Subject Risk assessment -- Canada -- Case studies.
Risk assessment.
Social justice -- Canada.
Social justice.
Human services -- Canada.
Human services.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Case studies.
Added Author Callahan, Marilyn, 1942-
Other Form: Print version: Swift, Karen. At risk 9780802093318 (DLC) 2010285529 (OCoLC)424084548
ISBN 9781442697294 (electronic book)
1442697296 (electronic book)
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