Katrin Križ
Biographic Data
| ID | 229600 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Katrin Križ |
| GIVEN NAMES | Katrin |
| FAMILY NAME | Križ |
| SIGNATURE | KRIŽ K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Emmanuel College - Massachusetts |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9135-1919 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 26 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 262 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 25 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Child-Centric Populations? A study of Nordic populations’ justifications for children’s participation
This study investigates Nordic populations’ culture of human rights, focusing on children as autonomous individuals with rights to be heard. Using a unique survey of representative samples of 1,000 respondents from each country, with a total of 5,073 respondents, this study operationalizes child-centrism as ‘a child being heard’ and analyses justifications for such participation. Results show that 40 percent of respondents emphasize an ethical ju…
Children and young people’s participation in child protection: Outcomes of Transformative Participation in International Contexts
Balancing paternalism and child centrism: A Nordic population study on children's rights in child protection
Children and Young People's Participation in Child Protection: International Research and Practical Applications
This book highlights various pathways to children and young people’s individual and collective participation in child protection by providing recent international examples of participatory research and practices by children, young people, and child protection practitioners. The participatory approaches include child protection practice and system innovations initiated and implemented by children and young people. They also encompass participatory…
The Not-So-Hidden Curriculum: How a Public School System in the United States Minoritizes Migrant Students
This article casts light on how one public school system in the United States minoritizes migrant students by perpetuating systemic class and racial biases. Migrant students are the children of migrant workers who migrate across the United States seasonally to work in agriculture or fisheries. Based on in-depth interviews with 20 educators, we identified three main areas of class and racial biases that we call the not-so-hidden curriculum: First,…
The Invisible Child: A Comparative Study of Newborn Removal Judgments from a Child Equality Perspective (cep)
We know little about how children are portrayed in care order cases. Using a Child Equality Perspective ( cep ), which demands the child’s presence in proceedings even for children who are not capable of partaking fully in the decision-making process, we examine a sample of 216 judgments from 8 countries involving 220 infants. Our study reveals that the children remain largely invisible, but with clear country differences. Children’s invisibility…
Corporal punishment and reporting to child protection authorities: An empirical study of population attitudes in five European countries
This study, which draws upon representative survey data of the populations of Austria (n = 1000), Estonia (n = 1069), Ireland (n = 1000), Norway (n = 1002) and Spain (n = 1000), compares population attitudes towards corporal punishment (CP) and whether citizens would report corporal punishment to the child protection authorities. We found significant cross-country differences in attitudes towards CP, but only small differences between countries i…
Are there population biases against migrant children? An experimental analysis of attitudes towards corporal punishment in Austria, Norway and Spain
We are merchandise on a conveyer belt”: How young adults in the public child protection system perceive their participation in decisions about their care
They know there is hope: ” How migrant educators support migrant students and their families in navigating the public school system
Fear Factors and Their Effects on Child Protection Practice With Undocumented Immigrant Families—“A Lot of My Families Are Scared and Won't Reach Out”
This study analyzes child protection workers' perceptions of the causes of immigrant families' fears of child protection systems (CPS) and the effects of these fears on child protection practice based on 24 qualitative interviews conducted with child protection caseworkers in the Northeastern United States. Workers reported three major fear factors among immigrant families: fear of CPS involvement leading to detention and deportation, fear of chi…
Child welfare workers' perceptions of children's participation: A comparative study of E ngland, N orway and the USA ( C alifornia)
This paper examines how child welfare workers in E ngland, N orway and the USA ( C alifornia) perceive children's participation building on 91 qualitative interviews. First, analysing the data using H art's ladder of children's participation, we found that all N orwegian workers perceived children's participation as some form of decision‐making, whereas 40% of E nglish and 35% of US workers embraced views of children's participation that can be c…
Dignity and Dreams: What the Earned Income Tax Credit (Eitc) Means to Low-Income Families
Money has meaning that shapes its uses and social significance, including the monies low-income families draw on for survival: wages, welfare, and the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC). This study, based on in-depth interviews with 115 low-wage EITC recipients, reveals the EITC is an unusual type of government transfer. Recipients of the EITC say they value the debt relief this government benefit brings. However, they also perceive it as a just rew…
Street-level policy aims of child welfare workers in England, Norway and the United States: An exploratory study
This study, which is based on in-depth, semi-structured interviews with a total of 92 child welfare workers in California, England and Norway conducted between January 2008 and June 2010, analyzes how child welfare workers view the principles underlying their respective child welfare system. We address this question using Lipsky's (1980) understanding of street-level bureaucracy. While we know about the policy principles of governments, we know l…
Harvesting hardships: Educators’ views on the challenges of migrant students and their consequences on education
How Domestic Public Policy Goes Global: Immigrants' Transnational Allocations of the Earned Income Tax Credit (Eitc)
Systemic differences in views on risk: A comparative case vignette study of risk assessment in England, Norway and the United States (California)
How child welfare workers perceive their work with undocumented immigrant families: An explorative study of challenges and coping strategies
Fear management: How child protection workers engage with non-citizen immigrant families
The Role of Earned Income Tax Credit in the Budgets of Low-Income Households
The annual receipt of large tax refunds, primarily due to the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC), provides households with unusual opportunities to pay old bills and build assets. To examine these opportunities, the study surveys 194 black, Latino, and white parents who received EITC refunds of at least $1,000; in-depth interviews followed 6 months later. The majority of households (57 percent) report that they planned to allocate a considerable por…
Challenges for marginalized minority parents in different welfare systems: Child welfare workers’ perspectives
This article explores the challenges that marginalized minority parents face raising their children in England, Norway and the United States. While there are similar patterns of challenges across the three countries, such as cultural differences, including lack of language proficiency and knowledge of the society and systems, cross-country differences seem primarily to correspond to different systems of welfare aims and services. We discuss the i…
Child‐centric or family focused? A study of child welfare workers' perceptions of ethnic minority children in England and Norway
This paper analyses child welfare workers' perceptions of ethnic minority children in England and Norway based on in‐depth interviews with 52 child welfare workers in 2008. We employ a child‐centric theoretical framework to explore up to what extent workers focus on minority children in their perceptions. We found that about half of our study participants ( n = 27) did so, and many more in Norway than England. They perceived many risks and proble…
How child welfare workers view their work with racial and ethnic minority families: The United States in contrast to England and Norway
Lost in Translation: How Child Welfare Workers in Norway and England Experience Language Difficulties when Working with Minority Ethnic Families
This article explores the challenges that social workers in child welfare agencies in Norway and England experience when working with minority ethnic families who are not proficient in the country's language. This study is based on fifty-three interviews in which social workers reflected on an open-ended question that addresses the differences between working with minority ethnic children and their families and white children and their families, …
Knowing Our Society' and 'Fighting Against Prejudices: How Child Welfare Workers in Norway and England Perceive the Challenges of Minority Parents
Dignity and Dreams: What the Earned Income Tax Credit (Eitc) Means to Low-Income Families
Money has meaning that shapes its uses and social significance, including the monies low-income families draw on for survival: wages, welfare, and the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC). This study, based on in-depth interviews with 115 low-wage EITC recipients, reveals the EITC is an unusual type of government transfer. Recipients of the EITC say they value the debt relief this government benefit brings. However, they also perceive it as a just rew…
The Role of Earned Income Tax Credit in the Budgets of Low-Income Households
The annual receipt of large tax refunds, primarily due to the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC), provides households with unusual opportunities to pay old bills and build assets. To examine these opportunities, the study surveys 194 black, Latino, and white parents who received EITC refunds of at least $1,000; in-depth interviews followed 6 months later. The majority of households (57 percent) report that they planned to allocate a considerable por…
Child welfare workers' perceptions of children's participation: A comparative study of E ngland, N orway and the USA ( C alifornia)
This paper examines how child welfare workers in E ngland, N orway and the USA ( C alifornia) perceive children's participation building on 91 qualitative interviews. First, analysing the data using H art's ladder of children's participation, we found that all N orwegian workers perceived children's participation as some form of decision‐making, whereas 40% of E nglish and 35% of US workers embraced views of children's participation that can be c…
We are merchandise on a conveyer belt”: How young adults in the public child protection system perceive their participation in decisions about their care
Systemic differences in views on risk: A comparative case vignette study of risk assessment in England, Norway and the United States (California)
Child‐centric or family focused? A study of child welfare workers' perceptions of ethnic minority children in England and Norway
This paper analyses child welfare workers' perceptions of ethnic minority children in England and Norway based on in‐depth interviews with 52 child welfare workers in 2008. We employ a child‐centric theoretical framework to explore up to what extent workers focus on minority children in their perceptions. We found that about half of our study participants ( n = 27) did so, and many more in Norway than England. They perceived many risks and proble…
Lost in Translation: How Child Welfare Workers in Norway and England Experience Language Difficulties when Working with Minority Ethnic Families
This article explores the challenges that social workers in child welfare agencies in Norway and England experience when working with minority ethnic families who are not proficient in the country's language. This study is based on fifty-three interviews in which social workers reflected on an open-ended question that addresses the differences between working with minority ethnic children and their families and white children and their families, …
Street-level policy aims of child welfare workers in England, Norway and the United States: An exploratory study
This study, which is based on in-depth, semi-structured interviews with a total of 92 child welfare workers in California, England and Norway conducted between January 2008 and June 2010, analyzes how child welfare workers view the principles underlying their respective child welfare system. We address this question using Lipsky's (1980) understanding of street-level bureaucracy. While we know about the policy principles of governments, we know l…
How child welfare workers view their work with racial and ethnic minority families: The United States in contrast to England and Norway
Knowing Our Society' and 'Fighting Against Prejudices: How Child Welfare Workers in Norway and England Perceive the Challenges of Minority Parents
We have very different positions on some issues’: How child welfare workers in Norway and England bridge cultural differences when communicating with ethnic minority families
This article compares how child welfare workers in Norway and England experience and cope with communication problems resulting from cultural differences. This study is based on in-depth, semi-structured interviews with 53 front-line child welfare workers and draws on social theories that understand communication as a social act. We show cross-country variations in child welfare workers' perceptions of the communicative problems and coping mechan…
Challenges for marginalized minority parents in different welfare systems: Child welfare workers’ perspectives
This article explores the challenges that marginalized minority parents face raising their children in England, Norway and the United States. While there are similar patterns of challenges across the three countries, such as cultural differences, including lack of language proficiency and knowledge of the society and systems, cross-country differences seem primarily to correspond to different systems of welfare aims and services. We discuss the i…
Fear management: How child protection workers engage with non-citizen immigrant families
Corporal punishment and reporting to child protection authorities: An empirical study of population attitudes in five European countries
This study, which draws upon representative survey data of the populations of Austria (n = 1000), Estonia (n = 1069), Ireland (n = 1000), Norway (n = 1002) and Spain (n = 1000), compares population attitudes towards corporal punishment (CP) and whether citizens would report corporal punishment to the child protection authorities. We found significant cross-country differences in attitudes towards CP, but only small differences between countries i…
Fear Factors and Their Effects on Child Protection Practice With Undocumented Immigrant Families—“A Lot of My Families Are Scared and Won't Reach Out”
This study analyzes child protection workers' perceptions of the causes of immigrant families' fears of child protection systems (CPS) and the effects of these fears on child protection practice based on 24 qualitative interviews conducted with child protection caseworkers in the Northeastern United States. Workers reported three major fear factors among immigrant families: fear of CPS involvement leading to detention and deportation, fear of chi…
Harvesting hardships: Educators’ views on the challenges of migrant students and their consequences on education
Are there population biases against migrant children? An experimental analysis of attitudes towards corporal punishment in Austria, Norway and Spain
How child welfare workers perceive their work with undocumented immigrant families: An explorative study of challenges and coping strategies
They know there is hope: ” How migrant educators support migrant students and their families in navigating the public school system
We have very different positions on some issues’: How child welfare workers in Norway and England bridge cultural differences when communicating with ethnic minority families
This article compares how child welfare workers in Norway and England experience and cope with communication problems resulting from cultural differences. This study is based on in-depth, semi-structured interviews with 53 front-line child welfare workers and draws on social theories that understand communication as a social act. We show cross-country variations in child welfare workers' perceptions of the communicative problems and coping mechan…
Lost in Translation: How Child Welfare Workers in Norway and England Experience Language Difficulties when Working with Minority Ethnic Families
This article explores the challenges that social workers in child welfare agencies in Norway and England experience when working with minority ethnic families who are not proficient in the country's language. This study is based on fifty-three interviews in which social workers reflected on an open-ended question that addresses the differences between working with minority ethnic children and their families and white children and their families, …
Knowing Our Society' and 'Fighting Against Prejudices: How Child Welfare Workers in Norway and England Perceive the Challenges of Minority Parents
Child‐centric or family focused? A study of child welfare workers' perceptions of ethnic minority children in England and Norway
This paper analyses child welfare workers' perceptions of ethnic minority children in England and Norway based on in‐depth interviews with 52 child welfare workers in 2008. We employ a child‐centric theoretical framework to explore up to what extent workers focus on minority children in their perceptions. We found that about half of our study participants ( n = 27) did so, and many more in Norway than England. They perceived many risks and proble…
How child welfare workers view their work with racial and ethnic minority families: The United States in contrast to England and Norway
How child welfare workers perceive their work with undocumented immigrant families: An explorative study of challenges and coping strategies
Fear management: How child protection workers engage with non-citizen immigrant families
The Role of Earned Income Tax Credit in the Budgets of Low-Income Households
The annual receipt of large tax refunds, primarily due to the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC), provides households with unusual opportunities to pay old bills and build assets. To examine these opportunities, the study surveys 194 black, Latino, and white parents who received EITC refunds of at least $1,000; in-depth interviews followed 6 months later. The majority of households (57 percent) report that they planned to allocate a considerable por…
Challenges for marginalized minority parents in different welfare systems: Child welfare workers’ perspectives
This article explores the challenges that marginalized minority parents face raising their children in England, Norway and the United States. While there are similar patterns of challenges across the three countries, such as cultural differences, including lack of language proficiency and knowledge of the society and systems, cross-country differences seem primarily to correspond to different systems of welfare aims and services. We discuss the i…
Systemic differences in views on risk: A comparative case vignette study of risk assessment in England, Norway and the United States (California)
Street-level policy aims of child welfare workers in England, Norway and the United States: An exploratory study
This study, which is based on in-depth, semi-structured interviews with a total of 92 child welfare workers in California, England and Norway conducted between January 2008 and June 2010, analyzes how child welfare workers view the principles underlying their respective child welfare system. We address this question using Lipsky's (1980) understanding of street-level bureaucracy. While we know about the policy principles of governments, we know l…
Harvesting hardships: Educators’ views on the challenges of migrant students and their consequences on education
How Domestic Public Policy Goes Global: Immigrants' Transnational Allocations of the Earned Income Tax Credit (Eitc)
Fear Factors and Their Effects on Child Protection Practice With Undocumented Immigrant Families—“A Lot of My Families Are Scared and Won't Reach Out”
This study analyzes child protection workers' perceptions of the causes of immigrant families' fears of child protection systems (CPS) and the effects of these fears on child protection practice based on 24 qualitative interviews conducted with child protection caseworkers in the Northeastern United States. Workers reported three major fear factors among immigrant families: fear of CPS involvement leading to detention and deportation, fear of chi…
Child welfare workers' perceptions of children's participation: A comparative study of E ngland, N orway and the USA ( C alifornia)
This paper examines how child welfare workers in E ngland, N orway and the USA ( C alifornia) perceive children's participation building on 91 qualitative interviews. First, analysing the data using H art's ladder of children's participation, we found that all N orwegian workers perceived children's participation as some form of decision‐making, whereas 40% of E nglish and 35% of US workers embraced views of children's participation that can be c…
Dignity and Dreams: What the Earned Income Tax Credit (Eitc) Means to Low-Income Families
Money has meaning that shapes its uses and social significance, including the monies low-income families draw on for survival: wages, welfare, and the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC). This study, based on in-depth interviews with 115 low-wage EITC recipients, reveals the EITC is an unusual type of government transfer. Recipients of the EITC say they value the debt relief this government benefit brings. However, they also perceive it as a just rew…
They know there is hope: ” How migrant educators support migrant students and their families in navigating the public school system
We are merchandise on a conveyer belt”: How young adults in the public child protection system perceive their participation in decisions about their care
Are there population biases against migrant children? An experimental analysis of attitudes towards corporal punishment in Austria, Norway and Spain
Corporal punishment and reporting to child protection authorities: An empirical study of population attitudes in five European countries
This study, which draws upon representative survey data of the populations of Austria (n = 1000), Estonia (n = 1069), Ireland (n = 1000), Norway (n = 1002) and Spain (n = 1000), compares population attitudes towards corporal punishment (CP) and whether citizens would report corporal punishment to the child protection authorities. We found significant cross-country differences in attitudes towards CP, but only small differences between countries i…
The Not-So-Hidden Curriculum: How a Public School System in the United States Minoritizes Migrant Students
This article casts light on how one public school system in the United States minoritizes migrant students by perpetuating systemic class and racial biases. Migrant students are the children of migrant workers who migrate across the United States seasonally to work in agriculture or fisheries. Based on in-depth interviews with 20 educators, we identified three main areas of class and racial biases that we call the not-so-hidden curriculum: First,…
The Invisible Child: A Comparative Study of Newborn Removal Judgments from a Child Equality Perspective (cep)
We know little about how children are portrayed in care order cases. Using a Child Equality Perspective ( cep ), which demands the child’s presence in proceedings even for children who are not capable of partaking fully in the decision-making process, we examine a sample of 216 judgments from 8 countries involving 220 infants. Our study reveals that the children remain largely invisible, but with clear country differences. Children’s invisibility…
Children and Young People's Participation in Child Protection: International Research and Practical Applications
This book highlights various pathways to children and young people’s individual and collective participation in child protection by providing recent international examples of participatory research and practices by children, young people, and child protection practitioners. The participatory approaches include child protection practice and system innovations initiated and implemented by children and young people. They also encompass participatory…
Children and young people’s participation in child protection: Outcomes of Transformative Participation in International Contexts
Balancing paternalism and child centrism: A Nordic population study on children's rights in child protection
Political science (21 works) · Psychology (19 works) · Sociology (19 works) · Law (16 works) · Child Abuse and Trauma (13 works) · Law (12 works) · Social Psychology (11 works) · Social Psychology (11 works) · Welfare (11 works) · Social Work Education and Practice (10 works)