Shari Cunningham
Biographic Data
| ID | 4238385 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Shari Cunningham |
| GIVEN NAMES | Shari |
| FAMILY NAME | Cunningham |
| SIGNATURE | CUNNINGHAM S |
| AFFILIATIONS | The State University of New Jersey |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 2 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 2 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Parental Criminalization and the Overrepresentation of Black Families in Child Protective Services
Racial disparities within child protective services are widely known. However, little is known about how the language used in historical policy documents related to the passing of the Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act of 1974 ultimately criminalized parents along racialized, gendered, and class-based lines. Using intersectionality and stigma as the frameworks and critical discourse analysis as the methodology, the authors analyzed the lang…
Understanding the expansion of social control and helping professionals as unwilling agents of the state
It is widely known that those in the helping professions are mandated to report suspected incidences of child maltreatment. However, few are aware of the historical resistance to mandated reporting that helping professionals demonstrated before the passing of the Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act (CAPTA) of 1974 and the associated federal mandates that compelled helping professionals to engage in mandated reporting, oftentimes against thei…
Understanding the expansion of social control and helping professionals as unwilling agents of the state
It is widely known that those in the helping professions are mandated to report suspected incidences of child maltreatment. However, few are aware of the historical resistance to mandated reporting that helping professionals demonstrated before the passing of the Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act (CAPTA) of 1974 and the associated federal mandates that compelled helping professionals to engage in mandated reporting, oftentimes against thei…
Understanding the expansion of social control and helping professionals as unwilling agents of the state
It is widely known that those in the helping professions are mandated to report suspected incidences of child maltreatment. However, few are aware of the historical resistance to mandated reporting that helping professionals demonstrated before the passing of the Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act (CAPTA) of 1974 and the associated federal mandates that compelled helping professionals to engage in mandated reporting, oftentimes against thei…
Parental Criminalization and the Overrepresentation of Black Families in Child Protective Services
Racial disparities within child protective services are widely known. However, little is known about how the language used in historical policy documents related to the passing of the Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act of 1974 ultimately criminalized parents along racialized, gendered, and class-based lines. Using intersectionality and stigma as the frameworks and critical discourse analysis as the methodology, the authors analyzed the lang…
Child Abuse and Trauma (2 works) · Child abuse (1 works) · Child protection (1 works) · Child Welfare and Adoption (1 works) · Control (management) (1 works) · Criminalization (1 works) · Criminology (1 works) · Economics (1 works) · Homelessness and Social Issues (1 works) · Homicide, Infanticide, and Child Abuse (1 works)