Elizabeth Beck
Biographic Data
| ID | 4100580 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Elizabeth Beck |
| GIVEN NAMES | Elizabeth |
| FAMILY NAME | Beck |
| SIGNATURE | BECK E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Georgia State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8791-2808 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 25 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 93 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 25 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Antiracist Policy Analysis: A Scoping Review to Inform Social Work Education and Practice
As part of tackling racism, social workers would benefit from being able to identify and implement antiracist approaches to policy analysis. The aim of this study was to locate peer-reviewed or reputable sources that offer either explicit frameworks or built concepts that could inform antiracist policy analysis. We identified 561 sources; after screening out off-topic or irretrievable sources, 27 sources were included in this scoping review. Our …
Disrupting the Harm of Echo Chambers: Promoting a Feminist Pedagogy of Social Change and “Calling-in”
Social media is integral to modern culture and social work, yet research on the impact of internet echo chambers is scarce. Since internet echo chambers contribute to polarization, normalize harmful ideas and violence, and adversely affect clients, this In-brief seeks to 1) raise awareness about their impact, and 2) initiate a conversation about their harm and how to address it. This In Brief examines the effects of echo chambers, particularly re…
Reproductive Justice, Bodily Autonomy, and State Violence
Media stories have highlighted some devastating consequences of attacks on bodily autonomy (i.e., the fundamental right to make decisions about one's own body without constraints or violence), such as the surging maternal mortality rates among Black, Indigenous, and People of Color), a 10-year-old rape victim’s travel out of state for an abortion, families’ exodus from Texas to avoid child maltreatment charges in response to their children’s gend…
Restorative justice inside prison: Enacting the promise of emancipatory pedagogy
Incarcerated people who study critical theory and emancipatory pedagogy inside prison classrooms can be frustrated by an inability to practice its goals of removing the barriers between faculty and students and creating a more just and democratic society. Inside prison, the theory of emancipatory learning is immensely empowering, but its practice is fraught by the intersecting, oppressive technologies of the prison world. In this article, three i…
Feminism, Social Work, Militarization, and War
Sexual Violence as a War Weapon in Conflict Zones: Palestinian Women’s Experience Visiting Loved Ones in Prisons and Jails
At present, there are about 4,500 Palestinians detained in Israeli prisons and jails. This study explores Palestinian women’s experiences with sexual violence by prison personnel as they visit their detained loved ones. In interviews with 20 participants, the prevalence of, type of, and reaction to sexual violence were explored. Nineteen of the 20 participants stated that they experienced some sort of unwanted verbal and nonverbal sexual comments…
Introduction to Special Topic on Anticarceral Feminisms: Imagining a World Without Prisons
Naming White Supremacy in the Social Work Curriculum
Undoing Islamophobia: Awareness of Orientalism in Social Work
Islamophobia describes the racism, exploitation, and violence experienced by Arabs, individuals of Arab descent, and Muslims. Although social workers are meant to challenge social injustice, social work codes of ethics and the literature are without guidance for unlearning Islamophobia. Arguing that one’s ability to interrupt Islamophobia is strengthened by an understanding of the historical record and theoretical tenets of Orientalism, we offer …
Homeless youth, strain, and justice system involvement: An application of general strain theory
Orientalism, Oppression, and Contemporary Social Work
Transforming Communities: Restorative Justice as a Community Building Strategy
Restorative justice is entering the social work literature as a strategy that can transform lives harmed by violence. However, the literature has yet to explore how restorative justice can transform communities. Despite the lack of published information, communities across the globe and the United States are experiencing important benefits from restorative justice-based interventions. This article explores 4 restorative justice strategies that se…
Strategies for Preventing Neighborhood Violence: Toward Bringing Collective Efficacy into Social Work Practice
Neighborhood violence has profound effects on issues associated with social work practice, such as health, safety, and the positive development of children, youth, and families. This article brings together the literatures in criminology and public health that examine violence and social work's history in community practice to develop violence prevention strategies. One important concept from the criminology and public health literatures is colle…
Social Work and Restorative Justice
Restorative justice and social work share principles and goals, including the goal of addressing pain and conflict. Many of the processes used by restorative justice practitioners are based on indigenous practices that facilitate peacemaking, victim healing, and reengagement of offenders. As a method for transforming conflict, restorative justice can be viewed as a theory, a principle, and a practice. Each aspect of restorative justice has the ab…
Preventing Violence in Low-Income Communities: Facilitating Residents' Ability to Intervene in Neighborhood Problems
The violence found in low-income communities, including areas of concentrated poverty, is often extensive and can involve illegal drugs, juvenile delinquency, and even homicide. A large body of research has emerged which points to the positive effects of informal social control and social capital in preventing violence in lowincome communities, including neighbors taking leadership roles by intervening themselves. This article contains a descript…
In the Shadow of Death: Restorative Justice and Death Row Families
Little is known about the effects of having a loved one on death row, and alternative visions of punishment that offer the possibility for forgiveness and recovery are also underrepresented in our system of justice and within the academic literature. In the Shadow of Death uses narrative accounts of individuals affected by the death penalty and crime to explore what it means to have a loved one on death row. The in-depth examination of this under…
Children of the Condemned: Grieving the Loss of a Father to Death Row
This article explores the effects of a death sentence and execution on the children of the accused. Insight into the unique bereavement of this population is provided, while contributing to the literature on death and dying. The experience of losing a father to death row and eventual execution is compared to the wider population of children with incarcerated parents and it is determined that children of death row inmates contend with a much more …
Disenfranchised Grief and Nonfinite Loss as Experienced by the Families of Death Row Inmates
The families of death row inmates experience grief and loss issues that have been neglected by scholars and clinicians alike. The issues found in this population are unique and require our understanding. The present study uses the concepts of disenfranchised grief and nonfinite loss to uncover the pain experienced by the children and other family members who have a loved one on death row. Kenneth Doka's (1989) concept of disenfranchised grief is …
Using Feminist Methods and Restorative Justice to Interview Capital Offenders’ Family Members
Researching sensitive topics is critical to understanding women’s lives. However, this research often carries the risk of retraumatization and exploitation. This articleexamines the development of a sensitive-topic interview protocol that sought to minimize harm and to gain reliable and valid data by using principles from feminist methods and theory, and restorative justice. The development of the protocol is examined and its effectiveness is exp…
Citizen Participation in Neighborhood Organizations in Poor Communities and its Relationship to Neighborhood and Organizational Collective Efficacy
Collective efficacy describes residents' perceptions regarding their ability to work with their neighbors to intervene in neighborhood issues to maintain social control and solve problems. This study examines whether citizen participation in neighborhood organizations located in poor communities is related to neighborhood and organizational collective efficacy among residents. The results indicate that the more residents participated in their nei…
An Intersectional Model: Exploring Gender with Ethnic and Cultural Diversity
Although there is a growing literature on the experiences and service needs of ethnically and culturally diverse individuals, families and communities, the interaction of gender with other diversities has not been widely explored. This paper examines data collected from six affinity-based focus groups of women: refugees, older women, African American women, lesbians, girls, and women with disabilities to explore the interaction of gender with oth…
The National Domestic Workers Union and the War on Poverty
This article explores values, strategies, and tensions found within the War on Poverty and examines a War on Poverty-supported initiative, the National Domestic Workers Union (NDWU). The article makes the argument that the NDWU is illustrative of the War on Poverty in that each held structurally based descriptions of poverty and individually based prescriptions. The article explores the relationship of domestic service to the institutions of raci…
Predictors of Depression in a Sample of African-American Homeless Men: Identifying Effective Coping Strategies Given Varying Levels of Daily Stressors
Do Inner-City, African-American Males Exhibit "Bad Attitudes" toward Work
Many potential employers of inner-city African-American men believe that African-American men have poor work attitudes. The investigations reported here attempted to evaluate the veridicality of this assumption. The responses of African-American men who utilize a soup-kitchen were compared with college men on a variety of attitude measures, as well as on their reactions to a scenario about a man who worked for an unfair boss and quit in response.…
Perceiving Oppression: Relationships with Resilience, Self-Esteem, Depressive Symptoms, and Reliance on God in African-American Homeless Men
Empowerment has been proffered as a desirable goal for many disadvantaged populations. The process of empowerment can include encouraging disadvantaged individuals to recognize the structural factors in society (e.g., discrimination, oppression, injustice) which contribute to disadvantaged status. Two studies sought to determine the impact that recognition of oppression has on a disadvantaged individual's (1) self-esteem; (2) level of depressive …
Homeless youth, strain, and justice system involvement: An application of general strain theory
Citizen Participation in Neighborhood Organizations in Poor Communities and its Relationship to Neighborhood and Organizational Collective Efficacy
Collective efficacy describes residents' perceptions regarding their ability to work with their neighbors to intervene in neighborhood issues to maintain social control and solve problems. This study examines whether citizen participation in neighborhood organizations located in poor communities is related to neighborhood and organizational collective efficacy among residents. The results indicate that the more residents participated in their nei…
Introduction to Special Topic on Anticarceral Feminisms: Imagining a World Without Prisons
Strategies for Preventing Neighborhood Violence: Toward Bringing Collective Efficacy into Social Work Practice
Neighborhood violence has profound effects on issues associated with social work practice, such as health, safety, and the positive development of children, youth, and families. This article brings together the literatures in criminology and public health that examine violence and social work's history in community practice to develop violence prevention strategies. One important concept from the criminology and public health literatures is colle…
Preventing Violence in Low-Income Communities: Facilitating Residents' Ability to Intervene in Neighborhood Problems
The violence found in low-income communities, including areas of concentrated poverty, is often extensive and can involve illegal drugs, juvenile delinquency, and even homicide. A large body of research has emerged which points to the positive effects of informal social control and social capital in preventing violence in lowincome communities, including neighbors taking leadership roles by intervening themselves. This article contains a descript…
Predictors of Depression in a Sample of African-American Homeless Men: Identifying Effective Coping Strategies Given Varying Levels of Daily Stressors
Naming White Supremacy in the Social Work Curriculum
Transforming Communities: Restorative Justice as a Community Building Strategy
Restorative justice is entering the social work literature as a strategy that can transform lives harmed by violence. However, the literature has yet to explore how restorative justice can transform communities. Despite the lack of published information, communities across the globe and the United States are experiencing important benefits from restorative justice-based interventions. This article explores 4 restorative justice strategies that se…
Sexual Violence as a War Weapon in Conflict Zones: Palestinian Women’s Experience Visiting Loved Ones in Prisons and Jails
At present, there are about 4,500 Palestinians detained in Israeli prisons and jails. This study explores Palestinian women’s experiences with sexual violence by prison personnel as they visit their detained loved ones. In interviews with 20 participants, the prevalence of, type of, and reaction to sexual violence were explored. Nineteen of the 20 participants stated that they experienced some sort of unwanted verbal and nonverbal sexual comments…
Perceiving Oppression: Relationships with Resilience, Self-Esteem, Depressive Symptoms, and Reliance on God in African-American Homeless Men
Empowerment has been proffered as a desirable goal for many disadvantaged populations. The process of empowerment can include encouraging disadvantaged individuals to recognize the structural factors in society (e.g., discrimination, oppression, injustice) which contribute to disadvantaged status. Two studies sought to determine the impact that recognition of oppression has on a disadvantaged individual's (1) self-esteem; (2) level of depressive …
Undoing Islamophobia: Awareness of Orientalism in Social Work
Islamophobia describes the racism, exploitation, and violence experienced by Arabs, individuals of Arab descent, and Muslims. Although social workers are meant to challenge social injustice, social work codes of ethics and the literature are without guidance for unlearning Islamophobia. Arguing that one’s ability to interrupt Islamophobia is strengthened by an understanding of the historical record and theoretical tenets of Orientalism, we offer …
Using Feminist Methods and Restorative Justice to Interview Capital Offenders’ Family Members
Researching sensitive topics is critical to understanding women’s lives. However, this research often carries the risk of retraumatization and exploitation. This articleexamines the development of a sensitive-topic interview protocol that sought to minimize harm and to gain reliable and valid data by using principles from feminist methods and theory, and restorative justice. The development of the protocol is examined and its effectiveness is exp…
Reproductive Justice, Bodily Autonomy, and State Violence
Media stories have highlighted some devastating consequences of attacks on bodily autonomy (i.e., the fundamental right to make decisions about one's own body without constraints or violence), such as the surging maternal mortality rates among Black, Indigenous, and People of Color), a 10-year-old rape victim’s travel out of state for an abortion, families’ exodus from Texas to avoid child maltreatment charges in response to their children’s gend…
Feminism, Social Work, Militarization, and War
An Intersectional Model: Exploring Gender with Ethnic and Cultural Diversity
Although there is a growing literature on the experiences and service needs of ethnically and culturally diverse individuals, families and communities, the interaction of gender with other diversities has not been widely explored. This paper examines data collected from six affinity-based focus groups of women: refugees, older women, African American women, lesbians, girls, and women with disabilities to explore the interaction of gender with oth…
Perceiving Oppression: Relationships with Resilience, Self-Esteem, Depressive Symptoms, and Reliance on God in African-American Homeless Men
Empowerment has been proffered as a desirable goal for many disadvantaged populations. The process of empowerment can include encouraging disadvantaged individuals to recognize the structural factors in society (e.g., discrimination, oppression, injustice) which contribute to disadvantaged status. Two studies sought to determine the impact that recognition of oppression has on a disadvantaged individual's (1) self-esteem; (2) level of depressive …
Do Inner-City, African-American Males Exhibit "Bad Attitudes" toward Work
Many potential employers of inner-city African-American men believe that African-American men have poor work attitudes. The investigations reported here attempted to evaluate the veridicality of this assumption. The responses of African-American men who utilize a soup-kitchen were compared with college men on a variety of attitude measures, as well as on their reactions to a scenario about a man who worked for an unfair boss and quit in response.…
An Intersectional Model: Exploring Gender with Ethnic and Cultural Diversity
Although there is a growing literature on the experiences and service needs of ethnically and culturally diverse individuals, families and communities, the interaction of gender with other diversities has not been widely explored. This paper examines data collected from six affinity-based focus groups of women: refugees, older women, African American women, lesbians, girls, and women with disabilities to explore the interaction of gender with oth…
The National Domestic Workers Union and the War on Poverty
This article explores values, strategies, and tensions found within the War on Poverty and examines a War on Poverty-supported initiative, the National Domestic Workers Union (NDWU). The article makes the argument that the NDWU is illustrative of the War on Poverty in that each held structurally based descriptions of poverty and individually based prescriptions. The article explores the relationship of domestic service to the institutions of raci…
Predictors of Depression in a Sample of African-American Homeless Men: Identifying Effective Coping Strategies Given Varying Levels of Daily Stressors
Using Feminist Methods and Restorative Justice to Interview Capital Offenders’ Family Members
Researching sensitive topics is critical to understanding women’s lives. However, this research often carries the risk of retraumatization and exploitation. This articleexamines the development of a sensitive-topic interview protocol that sought to minimize harm and to gain reliable and valid data by using principles from feminist methods and theory, and restorative justice. The development of the protocol is examined and its effectiveness is exp…
Citizen Participation in Neighborhood Organizations in Poor Communities and its Relationship to Neighborhood and Organizational Collective Efficacy
Collective efficacy describes residents' perceptions regarding their ability to work with their neighbors to intervene in neighborhood issues to maintain social control and solve problems. This study examines whether citizen participation in neighborhood organizations located in poor communities is related to neighborhood and organizational collective efficacy among residents. The results indicate that the more residents participated in their nei…
In the Shadow of Death: Restorative Justice and Death Row Families
Little is known about the effects of having a loved one on death row, and alternative visions of punishment that offer the possibility for forgiveness and recovery are also underrepresented in our system of justice and within the academic literature. In the Shadow of Death uses narrative accounts of individuals affected by the death penalty and crime to explore what it means to have a loved one on death row. The in-depth examination of this under…
Children of the Condemned: Grieving the Loss of a Father to Death Row
This article explores the effects of a death sentence and execution on the children of the accused. Insight into the unique bereavement of this population is provided, while contributing to the literature on death and dying. The experience of losing a father to death row and eventual execution is compared to the wider population of children with incarcerated parents and it is determined that children of death row inmates contend with a much more …
Disenfranchised Grief and Nonfinite Loss as Experienced by the Families of Death Row Inmates
The families of death row inmates experience grief and loss issues that have been neglected by scholars and clinicians alike. The issues found in this population are unique and require our understanding. The present study uses the concepts of disenfranchised grief and nonfinite loss to uncover the pain experienced by the children and other family members who have a loved one on death row. Kenneth Doka's (1989) concept of disenfranchised grief is …
Social Work and Restorative Justice
Restorative justice and social work share principles and goals, including the goal of addressing pain and conflict. Many of the processes used by restorative justice practitioners are based on indigenous practices that facilitate peacemaking, victim healing, and reengagement of offenders. As a method for transforming conflict, restorative justice can be viewed as a theory, a principle, and a practice. Each aspect of restorative justice has the ab…
Preventing Violence in Low-Income Communities: Facilitating Residents' Ability to Intervene in Neighborhood Problems
The violence found in low-income communities, including areas of concentrated poverty, is often extensive and can involve illegal drugs, juvenile delinquency, and even homicide. A large body of research has emerged which points to the positive effects of informal social control and social capital in preventing violence in lowincome communities, including neighbors taking leadership roles by intervening themselves. This article contains a descript…
Transforming Communities: Restorative Justice as a Community Building Strategy
Restorative justice is entering the social work literature as a strategy that can transform lives harmed by violence. However, the literature has yet to explore how restorative justice can transform communities. Despite the lack of published information, communities across the globe and the United States are experiencing important benefits from restorative justice-based interventions. This article explores 4 restorative justice strategies that se…
Strategies for Preventing Neighborhood Violence: Toward Bringing Collective Efficacy into Social Work Practice
Neighborhood violence has profound effects on issues associated with social work practice, such as health, safety, and the positive development of children, youth, and families. This article brings together the literatures in criminology and public health that examine violence and social work's history in community practice to develop violence prevention strategies. One important concept from the criminology and public health literatures is colle…
Orientalism, Oppression, and Contemporary Social Work
Homeless youth, strain, and justice system involvement: An application of general strain theory
Undoing Islamophobia: Awareness of Orientalism in Social Work
Islamophobia describes the racism, exploitation, and violence experienced by Arabs, individuals of Arab descent, and Muslims. Although social workers are meant to challenge social injustice, social work codes of ethics and the literature are without guidance for unlearning Islamophobia. Arguing that one’s ability to interrupt Islamophobia is strengthened by an understanding of the historical record and theoretical tenets of Orientalism, we offer …
Naming White Supremacy in the Social Work Curriculum
Sexual Violence as a War Weapon in Conflict Zones: Palestinian Women’s Experience Visiting Loved Ones in Prisons and Jails
At present, there are about 4,500 Palestinians detained in Israeli prisons and jails. This study explores Palestinian women’s experiences with sexual violence by prison personnel as they visit their detained loved ones. In interviews with 20 participants, the prevalence of, type of, and reaction to sexual violence were explored. Nineteen of the 20 participants stated that they experienced some sort of unwanted verbal and nonverbal sexual comments…
Introduction to Special Topic on Anticarceral Feminisms: Imagining a World Without Prisons
Restorative justice inside prison: Enacting the promise of emancipatory pedagogy
Incarcerated people who study critical theory and emancipatory pedagogy inside prison classrooms can be frustrated by an inability to practice its goals of removing the barriers between faculty and students and creating a more just and democratic society. Inside prison, the theory of emancipatory learning is immensely empowering, but its practice is fraught by the intersecting, oppressive technologies of the prison world. In this article, three i…
Feminism, Social Work, Militarization, and War
Reproductive Justice, Bodily Autonomy, and State Violence
Media stories have highlighted some devastating consequences of attacks on bodily autonomy (i.e., the fundamental right to make decisions about one's own body without constraints or violence), such as the surging maternal mortality rates among Black, Indigenous, and People of Color), a 10-year-old rape victim’s travel out of state for an abortion, families’ exodus from Texas to avoid child maltreatment charges in response to their children’s gend…
Disrupting the Harm of Echo Chambers: Promoting a Feminist Pedagogy of Social Change and “Calling-in”
Social media is integral to modern culture and social work, yet research on the impact of internet echo chambers is scarce. Since internet echo chambers contribute to polarization, normalize harmful ideas and violence, and adversely affect clients, this In-brief seeks to 1) raise awareness about their impact, and 2) initiate a conversation about their harm and how to address it. This In Brief examines the effects of echo chambers, particularly re…
Antiracist Policy Analysis: A Scoping Review to Inform Social Work Education and Practice
As part of tackling racism, social workers would benefit from being able to identify and implement antiracist approaches to policy analysis. The aim of this study was to locate peer-reviewed or reputable sources that offer either explicit frameworks or built concepts that could inform antiracist policy analysis. We identified 561 sources; after screening out off-topic or irretrievable sources, 27 sources were included in this scoping review. Our …
Sociology (22 works) · Psychology (17 works) · Political science (15 works) · Criminology (13 works) · Social Psychology (13 works) · Law (12 works) · Social Psychology (11 works) · Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis (9 works) · Homelessness and Social Issues (8 works) · Law (8 works)