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Title Social policy & social justice / edited by John L. Jackson, Jr
Published Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2017]
©2017

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Description 1 online resource (163 pages) : illustrations
Contents Ending homelessness now / Dennis P. Culhane -- Mass incarceration : what's at stake and what to do / Malitta Engstrom, Alexandra Wimberly, Nancy Franke -- Social workers or the social work bureaucracy? / Antonio Garcia, Christina Denard -- Substance use, incarceration, and homelessness : mapping and navigating intersecting risk environments / Toorjo Ghose -- Foster care, then where? : why independent living is getting it all wrong / Johanna Greeson, Allison Thompson -- Reality of urban food deserts and what low-income food shoppers need / Amy Hillier, Benjamin Chrisinger -- What do you do? : ideas about transforming "work" in the United States / Roberta Rehner Iversen -- Forced mental health treatment will not prevent violent tragedies / Phyllis Solomon -- Beyond the good guy versus bad guy worldview : improving the gun policy debate / Susan B. Sorenson, David Hemenway -- Child welfare and poverty : the American paradox / Kara Finck, Debra Schilling Wolfe, Cindy W. Christian, Cynthia A. Connolly -- Transforming education : toward thinking comprehensively about education / Ezekiel J. Dixon-Roman, Ama Nyame-Mensah -- From poverty to well-being : new tools for addressing concentrated disadvantage / Mark J. Stern
Summary "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"--Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Notes Print version record
Subject Social justice.
Social policy.
Social Justice
Public Policy
public policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Sociology -- Urban.
Social justice.
Social policy.
Form Electronic book
Author Jackson, John L., Jr., 1971- editor.
ISBN 9781512821475
1512821470
Other Titles Social policy and social justice