At Risk: Social Justice in Child Welfare and Other Human Services

by Karen J. Swift and Marilyn Callahan

Book Overview

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. They argue that the tools, technologies, and practices used to measure risk to the individual have gone unquestioned and unstudied and that current methods of risk assessment may be distorting the principles of social justice. Central to this study is an examination of...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0802094996
• ISBN13: 9780802094995
• Release Date: October 2009
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Length: 259 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher