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The Legacy of Racism for Children: Psychology, Law, and Public Policy

Editat de Margaret C. Stevenson, Bette L. Bottoms, Kelly C. Burke
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 7 sep 2020
When children become entangled with the law, their lives can be disrupted irrevocably. When those children are underrepresented minorities, the potential for disruption is even greater. The Legacy of Racism for Children: Psychology, Law, and Public Policy examines issues that arise when minority children's lives are directly or indirectly influenced by law and public policy. Uniquely comprehensive in scope, this trailblazing volume offers cutting-edge chapters on the intersections of race/ethnicity within the context of child maltreatment, child dependency court, custody and adoption, familial incarceration, school discipline and the "school-to-prison pipeline," juvenile justice, police/youth interactions, and jurors' perceptions of child and adolescent victims and defendants. The book also includes chapters focused on troubling situations that are less commonly researched, but growing in importance, including the role of race and racism in child sex trafficking and US immigration law and policy. Thus, individual chapters explore myriad ways in which law and policy shape the lives of marginalized children and adolescents - racial and ethnic minorities - who historically and presently are at heightened risk for experiencing disadvantageous consequences of law and policy. In so doing, The Legacy of Racism for Children can help social scientists to understand and work to prevent the perpetuation of racial discrimination in American laws and public policies.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780190056742
ISBN-10: 0190056746
Pagini: 284
Dimensiuni: 239 x 160 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.54 kg
Editura: Oxford University Press
Colecția OUP USA
Locul publicării:New York, United States

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The Legacy of Racism for Children offers a much-needed resource for policy analysts and practitioners in law and clinical psychology, as well as for students preparing for careers in related fields. Highly recommended. All readers.
Boasting thorough original research, this book pioneers an interdisciplinary exploration of the legal structures and social policy under which young African Americans suffer frequent injustice. A wealth of current empirical data is presented alongside informative legal and psychological case studies. It is thus not only relevant for anyone who works on the 'front-line' in education, psychology, policy, law, health but also those who are ready to address these blind spots in academia. This outstanding book carefully considers how such disparities have been exacerbated by US social and legal policy. It also addresses some of the empirically measurable effects of racism on children with much rippling significance outside of the US.
The book is highly informative, densely packed with empirical research, legal insights, history, case studies, anecdotes, and recommendations. It successfully conveys this information with sophistication and expertise and does so with stylistic and substantive finesse.
The Legacy of Racism for Children is timely, essential reading for anyone wishing to understand the causes and consequences of racism and inequitable treatment facing children in our systems of law and policy today. This book will become a 'must read' for scholars, practitioners, and citizens alike. The problem of racism has always been with us in American society; this book reveals how America's legacy of racism continues to impact children today-and provides critical insights about what we must do as individuals and as a society to acknowledge and shift this harmful legacy."
Through the pioneering research reflected in this volume, editors Stevenson, Bottoms and Burke have provided an important tool in the ongoing struggle for racial justice. It is a much-needed resource for public policy analysts, practitioners, researchers and child advocates alike."
As society continues to grapple with the legacies of centuries of racism, none are more troubling than those involving the sexual abuse and other exploitation of children of color, as this book sadly makes all too clear. But the problems will never be solved if they are not first clearly exposed and discussed, and for that, we owe the authors our gratitude."
This is a timely, well written, and truly outstanding book that effectively demonstrates ways that race and ethnicity are associated with increased risk to developing children. It is a must read by professionals from disciplines of psychology, law, and education, as well as parents. The authors present timely research and examples of biased behavior that have been institutionalized in our society (e.g., in courts and classrooms) and illustrate their effect on child and adolescent development. The authors also offer an approach to addressing racism. This book, with its well written, informative, and well researched chapters, likely will have a very powerful impact on public policy, the legal profession, mental health professionals and school teachers."

Notă biografică

Margaret C. Stevenson is Associate Professor at the University of Evansville. She has published over 30 peer-reviewed articles, chapters, and an edited volume related to jury decision-making. She has received various grants and awards for teaching, research, and service, including the APA Division 37's Section on Child Maltreatment Early Career Award and the APA Division 37 Early Career Professional Award for Service.Bette L. Bottoms is Professor of Psychology and Dean Emerita of the Honors College at The University of Illinois at Chicago. She is Fellow of the American Psychological Association (APA) and a past president of APA's Society for Child and Family Policy and Practice and Section on Child Maltreatment. Her psychology and law research has been funded by the National Science Foundation and published in over 100 journal articles, book chapters, and edited books.Kelly C. Burke is a doctoral candidate in the Social Psychology Program at The University of Illinois atChicago. Her research on the influence of prejudice and case evidence (e.g., body-worn camera footage) on juror decision making has been published in peer-reviewed journals and books and funded by the American Psychology-Law Society's Diversity Research Award and the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues Grant-in-Aid Award.