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Protecting Children in the Age of Outrage - A New Perspective on Child Protective Services Reform (Hardcover)
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Protecting Children in the Age of Outrage - A New Perspective on Child Protective Services Reform (Hardcover)
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This book proposes what, to many professionals in the child welfare
field, will appear a radically different explanation for our
society's decisions to protect children from harm and for the
significant drop in substantiated child abuse numbers. At the
center of this conceptual and analytic approach is the contention
that social outrage emanating from horrific and often
sensationalized cases of child maltreatment plays a major role in
CPS decision making and in child outcomes. The ebb and flow of
outrage, we believe, invokes three levels of response that are
consistent with patterns of the number of child maltreatment
reports made to public child welfare agencies, the number of cases
screened-in by these CPS agencies, the proportions of alleged cases
substantiated as instances of real child abuse or neglect, and the
numbers of children placed outside their homes. At the community
level, outrage produces amplified surveillance and a posture of
"zero-tolerance" while child protection workers, in turn, carry out
their duties under a fog of "infinite jeopardy." With outrage as a
driving force, child protective services organizations are forced
into changes that are disjointed and highly episodic; changes which
follow a course identified in the natural sciences as abrupt
equilibrium changes. Through such manifestations as child safety
legislation, institutional reform litigation of state child
protective services agencies, massive retooling of the CPS
workforce, the rise of community surveillance groups and moral
entrepreneurs, and the exploitation of fatality statistics by media
and politicians we find evidence of outrage at work and its power
to change social attitudes, worker decisions and organizational
culture. In this book, Jungian psychology intersects with the
punctuated equilibrium theory to provide a compelling explanation
for the decisions made by public CPS agencies to protect children.
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