Policing Not Protecting Families: The Child Welfare System as Poverty Governance

＂Policing Not Providing: The Child Welfare System as Poverty Governance critically analyzes how the U.S. child welfare system surveils and polices poor families, especially poor Black and Native families, rather than meeting families’ basic needs or protecting children from harm＂--

Jennifer M. Randles (Editor)
Jennifer M. Randles is Professor in the Department of Sociology at California State University, Fresno, and author of Essential Dads: The Inequalities and Politics of Fathering.

Kerry Woodward (Editor)
Kerry Woodward is Professor of Sociology at California State University, Long Beach. She is the author of Pimping the Welfare System: Empowering Participants with Economic, Social, and Cultural Capital.