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Moving Toward Positive Systems of Child and Family Welfare

Edited by Gary Cameron, Nick Coady, and Gerald R. Adams
Subjects: Law, Child Advocacy, Social Science, Social Work, Political Science, Social Policy

Faced with rapidly changing social and economic conditions, service professionals, policy developers, and researchers have raised significant concerns about the Canadian child welfare system. This book ...

With Children and Youth

Edited by Hans A. Skott-Myhre, Kiaras Gharabaghi, and Mark Krueger
Subjects: Law, Child Advocacy, Social Science, Child Studies, Political Science, Social Services, Social Policy
Series: Studies in Childhood and Family in Canada

With Children and Youth provides a snapshot of emerging theories and perspectives in the field of child and youth care across North America. Well-known scholars and researchers present new and innovative ...

A Question of Commitment

Edited by Thomas Waldock
Foreword by Katherine Covell & R. Brian Howe
Subjects: Social Science, Child Studies, Social Work, Law, Child Advocacy
Series: Studies in Childhood and Family in Canada

With the adoption of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (1989), commentators began to situate the evolution of the status of children within the context of the “property to persons” ...

Crime and Criminal Justice in Europe and Canada

Edited by Louis Knafla
Subjects: History, Canadian History, Law, Social Science

How is modern-day thinking about crime different from that of previous centuries? What are the similarities and differences in attitudes and systems between the civil and common law societies of Europe ...

Debating Rights Inflation in Canada

By Dominique Clément
Subjects: Law, Social Science, Sociology
Series: Canadian Commentaries

Human rights has become the dominant vernacular for framing social problems around the world. In this book, Dominique Clément presents a paradox in politics, law, and social practice: he argues that ...

After Prison

Edited by Adrienne M.F. Peters & Rose Ricciardelli
Subjects: Political Science, Social Services, Social Science, Sociology, Social Policy, Law

Employment for former prisoners is a critical pathway toward reintegration into society and is central to the processes of desistance from crime. Nevertheless, the economic climate in Western countries ...

Surviving Incarceration

By Rose Ricciardelli
Subjects: Social Science, Sociology, Political Science, Social Policy, Law, Social Services

Is prison a humane form of punishment and an effective means of rehabilitation? Are current prison policies, such as shifting resources away from rehabilitation toward housing more offenders, improving ...

Taking Responsibility for Children

Edited by Robert Noggle & Samantha Brennan
Subjects: Social Science, Child Studies, Philosophy, Ethics, Law, Child Advocacy
Series: Studies in Childhood and Family in Canada

What do we as a society, and as parents in particular, owe to our children? Each chapter in Taking Responsibility for Children offers part of an answer to that question. Although they vary in the approaches ...

Cruel But Not Unusual

Edited by Cathy Vine & Ramona Alaggia
Subjects: Law, Child Advocacy, Social Science, Gender Studies, Family & Relationships, Domestic Violence, Child Abuse

Picture family life in Canada. Does it include women or girls being murdered, on average, every two and a half days? Or the fact that intimate partner violence counts as nearly one-third of all reports ...

Child Welfare

Edited by Brad McKenzie & Kathleen Kufeldt
Subjects: Social Science, Child Studies, Political Science, Social Policy, Social Work, Law, Child Advocacy

Children who receive child welfare services are a vulnerable group, and their numbers are growing. All who care about them need to be fully informed about current outcomes, indicators of success and failure, ...