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Social Policy and Social Justice / John L. Jackson Jr.

Contributor(s):

Jackson Jr., John L

Material type: Text

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9781512821475

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LOC classification:

HM671 .S672 2017

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Contents:

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction: It’s Not Just Social Policy, It’s Social Justice -- Chapter 1. Ending Homelessness Now -- Chapter 2. Mass Incarceration: What’s at Stake and What to Do -- Chapter 3. Social Workers or the Social Work Bureaucracy? -- Chapter 4. Substance Use, Incarceration, and Homelessness: Mapping and Navigating Intersecting Risk Environments -- Chapter 5. Foster Care, Then Where? Why Independent Living Is Getting It All Wrong -- Chapter 6. The Reality of Urban Food Deserts and What Low-Income Food Shoppers Need -- Chapter 7. What Do You Do? Ideas About Transforming “Work” in the United States -- Chapter 8. Forced Mental Health Treatment Will Not Prevent Violent Tragedies -- Chapter 9. Beyond the Good Guy Versus Bad Guy Worldview: Improving the Gun Policy Debate -- Chapter 10. Child Welfare and Poverty: The American Paradox -- Chapter 11. Transforming Education: Toward Thinking Comprehensively About Education -- Chapter 12. From Poverty to Well-Being: New Tools for Addressing Concentrated Disadvantage -- List of Contributors

Title is part of eBook package: Penn Press eBook Package 2017Title is part of eBook package: Penn Press eBook package 2017-2019Title is part of eBook package: Univ.of Pennsylvania Press eBook-Package 2017-2018Summary: The Penn School of Social Policy and Practice enjoys a reputation as Penn's social justice school, for its faculty actively strives to translate the highest ideals into workable programs that better people's lives. In this election year, as Americans debate issues like immigration, crime, mass incarceration, policing, and welfare reform, and express concerns over increasing inequality, tax policy, and divisions by race, sex, and class, "SP2," as the school is colloquially known, offers its expertise in addressing the pressing matters of our day. The practical solutions on offer in this volume showcase the judgment and commitment of the school's scholars and practitioners, working to change politics from blood sport to common undertakings.

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The Penn School of Social Policy and Practice enjoys a reputation as Penn's social justice school, for its faculty actively strives to translate the highest ideals into workable programs that better people's lives. In this election year, as Americans debate issues like immigration, crime, mass incarceration, policing, and welfare reform, and express concerns over increasing inequality, tax policy, and divisions by race, sex, and class, "SP2," as the school is colloquially known, offers its expertise in addressing the pressing matters of our day. The practical solutions on offer in this volume showcase the judgment and commitment of the school's scholars and practitioners, working to change politics from blood sport to common undertakings.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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