Social Policy and Social Justice

✍ Scribed by John L. Jackson, Jr. (editor)

• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Year: 2016
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 176
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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.

Contributors: Cindy W. Christian, Cynthia A. Connolly, Dennis Culhane, Ezekiel Dixon-Román, Malitta Engstrom, Kara Finck, Nancy Franke, Antonio Garcia, Toorjo Ghose, Johanna Greeson, Chao Guo, David Hemenway, Amy Hillier, Roberta Iversen, Alexandra Schepens, Phyllis Solomon, Susan B. Sorenson, Mark Stern, Allison Thompson, Debra Schilling Wolfe.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
Introduction: It’s Not Just Social Policy, It’s Social Justice
Chapter 1. Ending Homelessness Now
Chapter 2. Mass Incarceration: What’s at Stake and What to Do
Chapter 3. Social Workers or the Social Work Bureaucracy?
Chapter 4. Substance Use, Incarceration, and Homelessness: Mapping and Navigating Intersecting Risk Environments
Chapter 5. Foster Care, Then Where? Why Independent Living Is Getting It All Wrong
Chapter 6. The Reality of Urban Food Deserts and What Low-Income Food Shoppers Need
Chapter 7. What Do You Do? Ideas About Transforming “Work” in the United States
Chapter 8. Forced Mental Health Treatment Will Not Prevent Violent Tragedies
Chapter 9. Beyond the Good Guy Versus Bad Guy Worldview: Improving the Gun Policy Debate
Chapter 10. Child Welfare and Poverty: The American Paradox
Chapter 11. Transforming Education: Toward Thinking Comprehensively About Education
Chapter 12. From Poverty to Well-Being: New Tools for Addressing Concentrated Disadvantage
List of Contributors