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At Risk : Social Justice in Child Welfare and Other Human Services / Marilyn Callahan, Karen Swift.
De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013 Available online
View online- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Swift, Karen, author.
- Callahan, Marilyn, 1942- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Child welfare--Canada--Case studies.
- Child welfare.
- Risk assessment--Canada--Case studies.
- Risk assessment.
- Social justice--Canada.
- Social justice.
- Human services--Canada.
- Human services.
- Canada.
- Genre:
- Case studies.
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (296 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2018]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- In At Risk, Karen J. Swift and Marilyn Callahan examine risk and risk assessment in the context of professional practice in child protection, social work, and other human services.
- Contents:
- pt. I. The social relations of risk ; From social to individual risk ; Risk and social welfare ; The entrenchment of risk assessment in human services
- pt. II. The institutional world ; In the name of risk ; Reducing whose risk?
- pt. III. 'What have they thought of now?'.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Nov 2018)
- ISBN:
- 1-4426-9729-6
- 1-4426-9791-1
- OCLC:
- 707712827
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