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  • Social Welfare Policy in a Changing World

    This textbook is designed to help students develop the nine core social work competencies outlined by the Council on Social Work Education (CSWE) in its 2022 Educational Policy and Accreditation Standards (EPAS). Visit the 2022 EPAS website to learn more about these standards and competencies.Social Welfare Policy in a Changing World, Second Edition offers an engaging, stu... ... Leer más

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  • The Compassionate Court?

    Support, Surveillance, and Survival in Prostitution Diversion Programs

    Laws subject people who perform sex work to arrest and prosecution. The Compassionate Court? assesses two prostitution diversion programs (PDPs) that offer to “rehabilitate” people arrested for street-based sex work as an alternative to incarceration. However, as the authors show, these PDPs often fail to provide sustainable alternatives to their mandated clients. Participants are subjected to ... Leer más

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  • Negotiating Justice

    Progressive Lawyering, Low-Income Clients, and the Quest for Social Change

    While many young people become lawyers for the big bucks, others are motivated by the pursuit of social justice, seeking to help people for whom legal services are financially, socially, or politically inaccessible. These progressive lawyers often bring a considerable degree of idealism to their work, and many leave the field due to insurmountable red tape and spiraling disillusionment. But what ... Leer más

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  • In Our Hands

    The Struggle for U.S. Child Care Policy

    Working mothers are common in the United States. In over half of all two-parent families, both parents work, and women’s paychecks on average make up 35 percent of their families’ incomes. Most of these families yearn for available and affordable child care—but although most developed countries offer state-funded child care, it remains scarce in the United States. And even in prosperous times, ... Leer más

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  • In Our Hands

    The Struggle for U.S. Child Care Policy

    Series Libro 8 - Families, Law, and Society
    A call for better child care policies, exploring the reasons why there has been so little headway on a problem that touches so many families.Working mothers are common in the United States. In over half of all two-parent families, both parents work, and women’s paychecks on average make up 35 percent of their families’ incomes. Most of these families yearn for available and affordable child care ... Leer más

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  • Pushout

    The Criminalization of Black Girls in Schools

    The “powerful” (Michelle Alexander) exploration of the harsh and harmful experiences confronting Black girls in schools, and how we can instead orient schools toward their flourishingOn the day fifteen-year-old Diamond from the Bay Area stopped going to school, she was expelled for lashing out at peers who constantly harassed and teased her for something everyone on the staff had missed: she was ... Leer más

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  • "When the Welfare People Come"

    Race and Class in the US Child Protection System

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    "[An] excellent overview of the child welfare system . . . Most importantly, [the author] provides a discussion of how to create true change." —Tina Lee, author of Catching a Case: Inequality and Fear in New York City's Child Welfare SystemA groundbreaking look at the history and politics of the American child welfare system, "When the Welfare People Come" exposes the system in its totality, from ... Leer más

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  • Surviving Incarceration

    Inside Canadian Prisons

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  • Laboratories against Democracy

    How National Parties Transformed State Politics

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    As national political fights are waged at the state level, democracy itself pays the priceOver the past generation, the Democratic and Republican parties have each become nationally coordinated political teams. American political institutions, on the other hand, remain highly decentralized. Laboratories against Democracy shows how national political conflicts are increasingly flowing through the ... Leer más

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  • Black Disability Politics

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  • Red Brother, White Brother

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    Aboriginal families and communities are losing their children to child welfare systems at an alarming rate. Such children have very poor futures to look forward to; rejection, abuse and belonging to nowhere are too often the fate of children in care. Academic failure, poor self-esteem and loss of identity accompany them, often right into life on the streets, experiencing lateral violence, ... Leer más

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