Race, poverty and child protection decision making.

Autor/inn/en	Stokes, Jacqueline; Schmidt, Glen
Titel	Race, poverty and child protection decision making.
Quelle	In: The British journal of social work, 41 (2011) 6, S. 1105-1121Verfügbarkeit
Beigaben	Tabellen; Literaturangaben
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0045-3102
Schlagwörter	Methode; Kinderschutz; Armut; Sozialarbeiter; Jugendhilfe; Analyse; Daten; Untersuchung; Ethnische Minderheit; Kanada
Abstract	Some ethnic and racial minority groups, as well as families living in poverty, are overrepresented in the child welfare system. It is important to understand how issues of socio-economic status and race enter into child protection decisions. This research used a factorial survey method to look at the influence of race and poverty on child protection decision making. Participants were asked to make decisions about the severity of risk, service provision and the importance of a home visit on fictitious, but unique, vignettes in which the independent variables were randomly assigned. The finding was that race and poverty were not statistically significant in any of the decisions made. Rather, it was other factors of disadvantage, such as substandard housing, spousal violence and substance use, that impact decision making. A possible explanation for this finding is that child protection work with its reductionist and individualistic perspective obscures the context of people's lives.
Erfasst von	Deutsches Zentralinstitut für soziale Fragen, Berlin
Update	2024/1