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Catching a Case: Inequality and Fear in New York City´s Child Welfare System
Tina Lee
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Description for Catching a Case: Inequality and Fear in New York City´s Child Welfare System
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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 swept into the system are generally struggling but loving, fighting to raise their children in the face of crushing poverty, violent crime, poor housing, lack of childcare, and failing schools. Lee explored the child welfare system in New York City, observing family courts, interviewing parents and following them through the system, ... Read more
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 swept into the system are generally struggling but loving, fighting to raise their children in the face of crushing poverty, violent crime, poor housing, lack of childcare, and failing schools. Lee explored the child welfare system in New York City, observing family courts, interviewing parents and following them through the system, ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Rutgers University Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
258
Place of Publication
New Brunswick NJ, United States
ISBN
9780813576145
SKU
V9780813576145
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Ref
99-1
About Tina Lee
TINA LEE is an associate professor of anthropology and the director of the Applied Social Science Program at the University of Wisconsin–Stout.
Reviews for Catching a Case: Inequality and Fear in New York City´s Child Welfare System
"Lee's important contribution reveals embedded racism and classism within the child welfare system."
Aimee Cox
Fordham University
"[Catching a Case] provides the reader with tangible information regarding the current urgency to provide comprehensive policies that serve the needs of mothers and children. Additionally, this work serves as a road map to begin to imagine simple ways to ... Read more
Aimee Cox
Fordham University
"[Catching a Case] provides the reader with tangible information regarding the current urgency to provide comprehensive policies that serve the needs of mothers and children. Additionally, this work serves as a road map to begin to imagine simple ways to ... Read more