Toward Community Control of Child Welfare Funding
Repeal the Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act and Delink Child Protection from Family Well-Being
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 22005283 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Angela Olivia Burton, Angeline Montauban |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 11 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Publication date | 2021-07-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Columbia Journal of Race and Law (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2155-2401 • E-ISSN: 2155-2401 |
| Publisher | Columbia University Libraries (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.52214/cjrl.v11i3.8747 |
| OpenAlex | W3204985533 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 13 |
The Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act mandates reporting, investigation,and prosecution of allegedly abusive and neglectful parents. Commonly known as child protective services (CPS), this family policing system uses the government’s police power to disrupt, surveil, control, and destroy hundreds of thousands of Black families based on conditions of poverty framed as neglect. Centering a Black mother’s five-year long ordeal with New York City’s family policing system, we examine the carceral roots of CPS and its destructive impacts on Black families. We call for abolishing the CPS family policing system; diversion of the billions invested in the foster industry to investment in quality-of-life resources de-linked from so-called “child protection”; and monetary reparations for generations of CPS violence against Black families
Criminology · Economics · Family preservation · Management · Neglect · Political science · Politics · Poverty · Psychiatry · Sociology · Welfare · Child Welfare and Adoption · Homelessness and Social Issues · Law · Psychology
Theoretical Considerations for Engaging Black Youth and Families in Child-Serving Systems
Mechanisms of Inequity
Unfortunately what’s right isn’t always what’s best”
The stark implications of abolishing child welfare
Disentangling the impact of poverty threshold and material hardship on child maltreatment
Understanding the oppression of Black girls and women within the global context
Intersectionality and the Overrepresentation of Black Women, children, and families in the child welfare system
Population Health and the Carceral Continuum
Community leadership in system transformation
Intersectionality and structural gendered racism
Parental Criminalization and the Overrepresentation of Black Families in Child Protective Services
Navigating the child welfare system
Understanding the expansion of social control and helping professionals as unwilling agents of the state
| Unique citing works | 13 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 3,25 |
| Citation span | 2022 - 2026 (5) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 13 |