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06-10-2017 | Book Review

Sylvia Mignon: Child Welfare in the United States: Challenges, Policy, and Practice

New York, NY: Springer Publishing Company, 2017, 233 pp, ISBN: 9780826126429

Auteur: Julie Ardelean

Gepubliceerd in: Journal of Youth and Adolescence | Uitgave 11/2017

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In Child Welfare in the United States, Sylvia Mignon attempts to present the child welfare system as it was in the past, as it is currently, and as it might be with future innovations. The result of such broad ambition, as one might expect, is that Mignon is forced to rely on statistics and numbers to paint the picture of a system made up of children and their families. She combats what could read as a dry recitation of dismal numbers, however, with various text-boxes of personalized anecdotes and narrative detours on almost every other page. These opportunities to take a break from the research and engage with the specifics of a certain case, a personal experience, or a single program allow the reader the mental space to humanize the statistics. …

vorige artikel Kim Holt: Contemporary Family Justice: Policy and Practice in Complex Child Protection Decisions

volgende artikel Ann D. Poole: Interviewing Children: The Science of Conversation in Forensic Contexts

Baglivio, M. T., Wolff, K. T., Piquero, A. R., Bilchik, S., Jackowski, K., Greenwald, M. A., & Epps, N. (2016). Maltreatment, child welfare, and recidivism in a sample of deep-end crossover youth. Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 45(4), 625–654.CrossRefPubMed

Mignon, S. (2017). Child welfare in the United States: Challenges, policy, and practice. New York, NY: Springer Publishing Company.

Ryan, J. P., Perron, B. E., & Huang, H. (2016). Child welfare and the transition to adulthood: Investigating placement status and subsequent arrests. Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 45(1), 172–182.CrossRefPubMed

Titel: Sylvia Mignon: Child Welfare in the United States: Challenges, Policy, and Practice
New York, NY: Springer Publishing Company, 2017, 233 pp, ISBN: 9780826126429
Auteur: Julie Ardelean
Publicatiedatum: 06-10-2017
Uitgeverij: Springer US
Gepubliceerd in: Journal of Youth and Adolescence / Uitgave 11/2017
Print ISSN: 0047-2891
Elektronisch ISSN: 1573-6601
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10964-017-0764-7

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