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Children and crime / by Tang, Connie M.,1968-author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Introduction -- Circumstances under which children become crime victims -- Child maltreatment overview -- Research on child maltreatment -- Children as eyewitnesses -- Child protective services -- Children as offenders overview -- Understanding children as crime perpetrators -- Gender, race, and juvenile delinquency -- Precursors of youth violence -- The juvenile justice system -- Child maltreatment and juvenile delinquency.Children and Crime offers a multidisciplinary and research-based approach to the study of child maltreatment and juvenile delinquency. Connie M. Tang first examines children as victims of maltreatment, exploring how developmental trauma and societal factors influence children's behavior and psyche. Topics covered include child neglect, physical abuse, sexual abuse, and psychological abuse. Later chapters address how children come into conflict with the law and discuss gang membership and substance abuse. Engaging, real-life case studies illustrate the intersectionality of race, gender, and crime, as well as the role of Child Protective Services and juvenile courts. In particular, Tang examines how abuse and neglect can later play a role in a child's delinquency. Children and Crime provides an innovative and accessible text for psychology, social work, and criminal justice courses in child abuse, neglect, and delinquency.
Subjects: Children; Juvenile delinquency.; Child welfare.; Crime.;
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Bad faith : when religious belief undermines modern medicine / by Offit, Paul A.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.The very worst thing -- A fragile magic -- A vengeful God -- The faith healer next door -- The literal and the damned -- Dialogue of the deaf -- Do unto others -- Ungodly acts -- The miracle business -- The peculiar people -- The divine whisper -- Standing up -- Epilogue: the frail web of understanding."In Bad Faith, acclaimed physician and author Paul Offit gives readers a never-before-seen look into the minds of those who choose to medically martyr themselves, or their children, in the name of religion. Never afraid of controversy, Offit takes a stark and disturbing look at our surprising capacity to risk the health and safety of children in service of our beliefs. He tells the story of two devoted Christian Scientists who are shocked and heartbroken when their infant dies of a treatable disease; of orthodox Jewish parents who risk infecting their babies with herpes during an unsterile circumcision ritual; and of a man who believes his faith can cure his son's diabetes and, when that tragically fails, tries to raise him from the dead. The tangled relationship between religion and medicine may appear to afflict only certain pockets of America, but this phenomenon reaches much further -- whether you are seeking treatment at a Catholic hospital or trying to keep your kids safe from diseases spread by their unvaccinated peers, you'll likely encounter these issues"--Provided by publisher.
Subjects: Medicine; Child welfare.; Spiritual healing.; Patient refusal of treatment.; Religion and Medicine.; Child Welfare.; Faith Healing.; Treatment Refusal.;
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Children at risk : the precarious state of children's well-being in America / by Crouse, Janice Shaw.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Introduction : children's well-being and the nation's agenda -- The decline of marriage and the rise of divorce -- Single mothers and poverty -- Cohabitation -- Abortion -- Childhood sexual exploitation -- Child abuse -- Foster care -- Media -- Child care -- Childhood obesity -- Health, safety, and behavior -- Education -- Conclusion : the moral dimension of children's well-being.Argues that children need firm moral boundaries, discussing marriage, abortion, child abuse, foster care, the media, and other related topics.
Subjects: Child welfare; Families; Child abuse; Children;
© c2010., Transaction Publishers,
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Who's watching? : daily practices of surveillance among contemporary families / by Nelson, Margaret K.,1944-; Garey, Anita Ilta,1947-;
Includes bibliographical references."Nested responsibility" and the monitoring of children and parents in family court / Anita Ilta Garey -- "Where are you and what are you doing?" : familial back-up work as a collateral consequence of house arrest / William G. Staples -- Bring it on home : home drug testing and the relocation of the war on drugs / Dawn Moore and Kevin D. Haggerty -- Interracial surveillance and biological privilege : adoptive families in the public eye / Heather Jacobson -- Playground panopticism : ring-around-the-children, a pocketful of women / Holly Blackford -- "I saw your nanny" : gossip and shame in the surveillance of child care / Margaret K. Nelson -- The social impact of amniocentesis / Rayna Rapp -- Turning strangers into kin : half siblings and anonymous donors / Rosanna Hertz -- The powers of parental observation : constructing networks of care / Karen V. Hansen -- "Show me you can be a father" : maternal monitoring and recruitment of fathers for involvement in low-income families / Kevin Roy and Linda M. Burton -- Watching children : describing the use of baby monitors on Epinions.com / Margaret K. Nelson -- Policing gender boundaries : parental monitoring of preschool children's gender nonconformity / Emily W. Kane -- "I trust them but I don't trust them" : issues and dilemmas in monitoring teenagers / Demie Kurz -- The electronic tether : communication and parental monitoring during the college years / Barbara K. Hofer ... [et al.].
Subjects: Home detention; Electronic surveillance; Families; Parent and child; Child care; Child welfare; Familie; Überwachung; Kontrolle;
© c2009., Vanderbilt University Press,
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It takes a village : and other lessons children teach us / by Clinton, Hillary Rodham.;
Subjects: Child development; Child welfare; Parenting; Family; Clinton, Hillary Rodham.; Presidents' spouses;
© c1996., Simon & Schuster,
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Babies made us modern : how infants brought America into the twentieth century / by Golden, Janet Lynne,1951-;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Did babies make us modern? -- Infant lives and deaths : incubators, demographics, photographs -- Valuing babies : economics, social welfare, progressives -- Helping citizen baby : the u.s. children's bureau, good advice, better babies -- Bringing up babies I : giving, spending, saving, praying -- Bringing up babies II : health & illness, food & drink -- Helping baby citizens : traditional healers, patent medicines, local cultures -- The inner lives of babies : infant psychology -- Babies' changing times : depression, war, peace -- Baby boom babies -- Kissing and dismissing babies : American exceptionalism.Placing babies' lives at the center of her narrative, historian Janet Golden analyzes the dramatic transformations in the lives of American babies during the twentieth century. She examines how babies shaped American society and culture and led their families into the modern world to become more accepting of scientific medicine, active consumers, open to new theories of human psychological development, and welcoming of government advice and programs. Golden also connects the reduction in infant mortality to the increasing privatization of American lives. She also examines the influence of cultural traditions and religious practices upon the diversity of infant lives, exploring the ways class, race, region, gender, and community shaped life in the nursery and household.
Subjects: Child rearing; Infants; Maternal and infant welfare; Parent and infant; Child Rearing; Parent-Child Relations.; Infant Welfare;
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The stolen year : how COVID changed children's lives, and where we go now / by Kamenetz, Anya,1980-author.;
"An NPR education reporter shows how the last true social safety net-- the public school system--was decimated by the pandemic, and how years of short-sighted political decisions have failed to put our children first. School has long meant much more than an education in America. 30 million children depend on free school meals. Schools are, statistically, the safest physical places for children to be. They are the best chance many children have at finding basics like eye exams, safe housing, mental health counseling, or simply a caring adult. Flawed, inequitable, underfunded, and segregated, they remain the most important engine of social mobility and the crucible of our democracy. The cost of closing our schools for so long during COVID, made with good intentions, has not yet been fully reckoned with. In The Stolen Year, NPR education reporter Anya Kamenetz shows that the roots of our crisis run far deeper than COVID. She follows families across the country as they lived through the pandemic. But she also dives deep into the political history that brought us to this point: Why we have no childcare system to speak of, why subsidies for families were cut to the bone, how children became the group most likely to live in poverty, how we overpolice and separate families of color, and how we are content to let the unpaid and underpaid labor of women, especially women of color and immigrants, stand in for a void of public and collective concern for children. Kamenetz makes the case that 2020 wasn't a lost year--it was taken from our children, by years of neglect and bad faith. We have failed to put them first. The American Rescue Plan offers new tax benefits for families and new funding for schools. But if progress stops there, and we revert to cutting funding and laying off school staff, another crisis will surely come. The Stolen Year is a passionately argued and emotional story, but also a demand for recompense"--
Subjects: Education; COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020-; Children; Child welfare; Educational sociology;
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Raising government children : a history of foster care and the American welfare state / by Rymph, Catherine E.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Into the family life of strangers : the origins of foster family care -- The New Deal, family security, and the emergence of a public child welfare system -- Helping America's orphans of war -- Providing love and care : foster parents as parents -- The hard-to-place child : family pathology, race, and poverty -- Compensated motherhood and the state : foster parents as workers -- Poverty, punishment, and public assistance : reorienting foster family care.In the 1930s, buoyed by the potential of the New Deal, child welfare reformers hoped to formalize and modernize their methods, partly through professional casework but more importantly through the loving care of temporary, substitute families. Today, however, the foster care system is widely criticized for failing the children and families it is intended to help. How did a vision of dignified services become virtually synonymous with the breakup of poor families and a disparaged form of "welfare" that stigmatizes the women who provide it, the children who receive it, and their families? Tracing the evolution of the modern American foster care system from its inception in the 1930s through the 1970s, Catherine Rymph argues that deeply gendered, domestic ideals, implicit assumptions about the relative value of poor children, and the complex public/private nature of American welfare provision fueled the cultural resistance to funding maternal and parental care. What emerged was a system of public social provision that was actually subsidized by foster families themselves, most of whom were concentrated toward the socioeconomic lower half, much like the children they served. Analyzing the ideas, debates, and policies surrounding foster care and foster parents' relationship to public warfare, Rymph reveals the framework for the building of the foster care system and draws out its implications for today's child support networks. -- from back cover.
Subjects: Foster home care; Foster home care; Foster parents; Public welfare;
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Youth, crime, and justice / by Gebo, Erika,author.; Boyes-Watson, Carolyn,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Part I: Foundations of youth, crime, and justice -- Youth, society, and the law -- Youth and developmental institutions -- Paradigms of youth justice -- Part II: Pathways to crime for males and females -- Measurement and correlates of youth crime and violence -- Delinquency, victimization, and pathways to offending for boys -- Delinquency, victimization, and pathways to offending for girls -- Gangs, and sesrious, violent, chronic offenders -- Youth, schools, and problem behaviors -- Part III: The contemporary juvenile justice system -- Youth and police -- Youth and the courts -- Youth and corrections -- Prevention, intervention, and the future of youth justice."This comprehensive textbook covers the historical evolution of the core developmental institutions within modern society charged with the socialization, nurturance, guidance and regulation of children and youth including the family, schools, communities, child welfare, and juvenile system. Adopting a life course perspective, the textbook examines the changing legal, social, regulatory, and political landscape of childhood and adolescence within American society with consistent focus on dynamics of race, class, ethnicity, gender, power, and privilege"--
Subjects: Juvenile delinquency; At-risk youth; Juvenile justice, Administration of;
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Broken : [electronic resource] : by Pryce, Jessica.;
Dr. Jessica Pryce knows the child welfare system firsthand and, in this long overdue book, breaks it down from the inside out, sharing her professional journey and offering the crucial perspectives of caseworkers and Black women impacted by the system. It is a groundbreaking and eye-opening confrontation of the inherent and systemic racism deeply entrenched within the child welfare system. Pryce started her social work career with an internship where she was committed to helping keep children safe. In the book, she walks alongside her close friends and even her family as they navigate the system, while sharing her own reckoning with the requirements of her job and her role in the systemic harm. Through poignant narratives and introspection, readers witness the harrowing effects of a well-intentioned workforce that has lost its way, demonstrating how separations are often not in a child's best interests. With a renewed commitment to strengthening families in her role as activist, Pryce invites the child welfare workforce to embark on a journey of self-reflection and radical growth. At once a framework for transforming child protective services and an intimate, stunning first-hand account of the system as it currently operates, Broken takes everyday scenarios as its focus rather than extreme child welfare cases, challenging readers to critically examine their own mindsets and biases in order to reimagine how we help families in need.Electronic reproduction.
Subjects: Electronic books.; Nonfiction.; Family & Relationships.; Politics.; Sociology.;
© 2024.,
On-line resources: http://link.overdrive.com/?websiteID=130119&titleID=9922902 -- Click to access digital title in OverDrive.;
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