Practicing Social Justice

Ellen Burkemper, William J Hutchison, Jan Wilson, John J Stretch

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2013
• eBook ISBN: 9781135793715
• Topic: Law
• Subtopic: Law Theory & Practice
• Index: Law

Examine new research and innovative programs targeted to serve vulnerable populations!

This collection highlights innovative programs and interventions targeted toward underserved, vulnerable, and marginalized populations, including the homeless, immigrants, refugees, female ex-offenders, people with developmental disabilities who are entering the criminal justice system, homicidal youth, and children whose parents are involved in high-conflict custody disputes. In addition, Practicing Social Justice raises critical questions on how society should justly provide for the economic well-being of our most valuable human assetour childrenwith an incisive look at the Temporary Aid for Needy Families legislation and its long-term impact on disadvantaged children. This book also evaluates the Bridges Across Racial Polarization Programs® and explores a wide selection of important social justice issues that the social workers of today and tomorrow need to understand.

Specifically, this well-referenced book:

• details the mission and guiding principles of the Emmet and Mary Doerr Center for Social Justice at the Saint Louis University School of Social Service, with a focus on the Center's innovative partnered approach
• examines nine models/theories of justice with varying philosophical, sectarian, and nonsectarian orientations
• illustrates innovative approaches to community economic development for previously neglected poor communities, including an inclusive community plan structured to bring about home ownership, macro-enterprises, and the accumulation of capital through savings
• documents the rise of homelessness in the state of Missouriin spite of an unprecedented period of economic growth and general prosperity
• explores social justice concerns for immigrants and refugees entering the United States, with a focus on providing positive community commitment and response
• describes an empowering, strengths-based program that can help female ex-offenders to find and develop support from the community
• champions the social rights of people with developmental disabilities who are entering the criminal justice system
• proposes systemic reform for homicidal youth in terms of prevention, intervention, and remediation
• describes a program designed to provide a safe environment for the supervised visitation of children in high-conflict custody disputes, providing security for both parents and children
• advocates for innovative inpatient-staff participatory decision-making in mental health hospitals, offering an approach designed to increase patient control over decisions directly affecting their well-being
• and more!

Index

Abram, Faye Y., 5, 159

Access to Justice Initiative, National Association for Retarded Citizens, 225

Adams, Jane, 42

ADC (Aid to Dependent Children), 82, 83

Adult-focused litigation. See Children of high-conflict custody disputes

Advocacy, defined, 169

AFCD (Aid to Families with Dependent Children). See Welfare reform policy

Affirmative action, 59

AFIA (Assets for Independence Act), 104, 116n. 7

African Americans, 86

employment opportunities, 84–87

legislation effects on, 87

northern migration of, 85–86

Social Security eligibility, 84

“truly disadvantaged” group of, 87, 88–90, 89table

World War II, 84–85

Aid to Dependent Children (ADC), 82, 83

Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC). See Welfare reform policy

Allport, Gordon, 65

Anti-Terrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act, 139 The Arc. See National Association for Retarded Citizens

Aristotle, 19

Assets for Independence Act (AFIA), 104, 116n. 7

Being Black, Living in Red: Race, Wealth and Social Policy in America (Conley), 57

FOCUS St. Louis, 65–66

Bennett, John, 12, 19

Bennett, Leslie, 5, 221

Bentham, Jeremy, 9

Berg-Weger, Marla, 3, 5, 27, 205

Biblical Justice social justice model. See Models of social justice

Birkenmaier, Julie, 3, 41

Black Wealth, White Wealth (Oliver and Shapiro), 57

Bridges Across Racial Polarization Program®

contact hypothesis, 63–64, 65, 78

equal status concept, 63

FOCUS St. Louis, 65–66

group dynamics concept, 65, 74–75, 75, 76table, 78

racial dialogue concept, 63, 64–65, 77

racial networks concept, 64, 72–73, 72table, 75, 76table, 77, 78

racial polarization prevalence, 63–65, 66, 78

study description, 65–68

communication focus, 66

group composition, 67

group function structure, 67–68

hypotheses, 68

quality of life focus, 66

racial polarization, 66

study discussion, 77–78

study findings

cultural sensitivity search, 73–74, 78

impact of program, 75, 77

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Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Full Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• About the Editors
• The Right of Justice: Contributions of Social Work Practice-Research
• Whose Justice? An Examination of Nine Models of Justice
• Practicing Social Justice: Community-Based Research, Education, and Practice
• On Becoming a Social Justice Practitioner
• The Race/Poverty Intersection: Will We Ever Achieve Liberty and Justice for All?
• Building Bridges and Improving Racial Harmony: An Evaluation of the Bridges Across Racial Polarization Program
• Social Justice and Welfare Reform: A Shift in Policy
• "Human-Sized" Economic Development: Innovations in Missouri
• The Homeless in Missouri in the '90s: A Continuing Challenge to Social Justice
• Immigrant and Refugee Communities: Resiliency, Trauma, Policy, and Practice
• Doing Justice: Women Ex-Offenders as Group Facilitators, Advocates, and Community Educators
• Practicing Social Justice with Persons with Mental Illness Residing in Psychiatric Hospitals
• Youth Who Murder and Societal Responsibility: An Issue of Social Justice
• Children of High-Conflict Custody Disputes: Striving for Social Justice in Adult-Focused Litigation
• Practicing Social Justice with Persons with Developmental Disabilities Who Enter the Criminal Justice System
• Index