Editors:
- Discusses existing research documenting racial disproportionality and disparities in child welfare systems from a holistic lens
- Focusses on interventions targeting multiple causes and contributing factors
- Offers future directions in policy, practice and research of racial disproportionality and disparities
Part of the book series: Child Maltreatment (MALT, volume 11)
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Table of contents (22 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Understanding and Identifying Racial Disproportionality and Disparities
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Explaining Disproportionality and Disparities
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Consequences of Disproportionality and Disparities
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Preventing and Reducing Disproportionality and Disparities
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About this book
Keywords
- Child Abuse and Neglect
- Child Welfare
- Child Well-Being
- Creating Comprehensive System Reform
- Disproportionality and Disparities
- Measuring Disproportionality and Disparities
- Policy, Practice, and Research
- Populations in the Child Welfare System
- Preventing Disproportionality and Disparities
- Racial Disparities
- Racial Disproportionality
- Reducing Disproportionality and Disparities
- Workforce Development Strategies
Editors and Affiliations
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Graduate College of Social Work, University of Houston, Houston, USA
Alan J. Dettlaff
About the editor
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Racial Disproportionality and Disparities in the Child Welfare System
Editors: Alan J. Dettlaff
Series Title: Child Maltreatment
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-54314-3
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-54313-6Published: 28 November 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-54316-7Published: 28 November 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-54314-3Published: 27 November 2020
Series ISSN: 2211-9701
Series E-ISSN: 2211-971X
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VII, 445
Number of Illustrations: 6 b/w illustrations, 16 illustrations in colour
Topics: Education, general, Social Policy, Politics of the Welfare State, Social Work and Community Development, Comparative Social Policy, Quality of Life Research