Paula McFadden, Anne Campbell, Brian J. Taylor
Child protection social work is acknowledged as a very stressful occupation with high turnover and poor retention of staff being a major concern. This paper highlights themes that emerged from findings of 65 articles that were included as part of a systematic literature review. The review focused on...
Ceri Peach
compare British levels of segregation with those experienced by African Americans in the United States. British levels of segregation are much lower than those found in the USA and, for the Black Caribbean population, they are falling. South Asian levels of segregation are higher than for the Caribb...
Ruchira Tabassum Naved, Lars Åke Persson
Using data from a population-based survey of 2,702 women of reproductive age and from 28 in-depth interviews of abused women conducted during 2000-01, this study explores factors associated with domestic violence in urban and rural Bangladesh. Multilevel analysis revealed that in both residential ar...
Bonnie Hausman, Constance Hammen
The same factors that impede a mother's ability to maintain a stable residence are likely to impair her capacity to nurture children. This double crisis of homelessness and child rearing confronts caregivers with a special set of ethical and practical dilemmas. Psychosocial characteristics of homele...
Vanessa Burholt, Bethan Winter, Marja Aartsen, Costas Constantinou et al.
Social exclusion is complex and dynamic, and it leads to the non-realization of social, economic, political or cultural rights or participation within a society. This critical review takes stock of the literature on exclusion of social relations. Social relations are defined as comprising social res...
Robert A. Murdie, Sutama Ghosh
Toronto is Canada's major immigrant-receiving city and contains a wide diversity of ethnic groups. Although Canadians are generally receptive to immigration there is evidence that some recent immigrant groups, especially those concentrated in Toronto's inner suburbs, are not faring well economically...
Alessandro Conticini, David Hulme
ABSTRACT In Bangladesh, as in many developing countries, there is a widespread belief amongst the public, policy makers and social workers that children ‘abandon’ their families and migrate to the street because of economic poverty. Ignoring and avoiding mounting evidence to the contrary, this domin...
Moshtaq Ahmed, Mohammad Fazlur Rahman, Jeroen van Ginneken
BACKGROUND: Although the recent decline in child mortality in Bangladesh is remarkable, death from causes other than infectious diseases and malnutrition remains an important component of child mortality. Death from drowning of children can be expected to be a problem in Bangladesh given the geograp...
Lorenzo Bordonaro
Abstract At a time when children and youth are heralded by scholars and international organisations alike as active agents in the construction of their own lives and as individuals with participatory rights, I propose in this article, based on my fieldwork on street children and child protection pol...
Kausar Parvin, Sultana Naznin, Ruchira Tabassum Naved
BACKGROUND: Despite high prevalence of intimate partner violence (IPV) and its adverse social and health consequences, the rate of help seeking for IPV is generally low. Although the level of IPV is much higher in urban slums of Bangladesh, the level and nature of help seeking of the victims are unk...
Hortensia Amaro, Miriam Chernoff, Vivian B. Brown, Sandra Arévalo et al.
Abstract This article presents findings from a quasi‐experimental, nonrandomized group design study that explored whether trauma‐enhanced substance abuse treatment results in longer residential treatment stays and improved outcomes compared with treatment‐as‐usual. We used a subsample (N = 461) of p...
Sonja Ayeb‐Karlsson
This article uses storytelling methodology to investigate the connections between urban climate-induced loss of wellbeing and (im)mobility in Bhola Slum, an informal settlement in Dhaka, Bangladesh. The settlement houses Internally Displaced People from the southern coast who built and named the slu...
Ronald H. Aday, Lori Farney
The problem of providing mandated medical care has become commonplace as correctional systems in the United States struggle to manage unprecedented increases in its aging prison population. This study explores older incarcerated women's perceptions of prison health care policies and their day-to-day...
Sutama Ghosh
Abstract In the Toronto Census Metropolitan Area ( CMA ), almost a third of the total housing stock is comprised of high‐rise apartment buildings. Not only do most new immigrants reside in these structures upon arrival, they often continue living here for a prolonged period, for a variety of interre...
David C. Pyrooz, Andrew M. Fox, Scott H. Decker
Abstract There is a lack of macro‐level gang research. The present study addresses this shortcoming by providing a theoretically informed analysis of gang membership in large US cities. More specifically, our goal is to determine whether racial and ethnic heterogeneity conditions the relationship be...