Description: "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"--
Brief description: 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.
Review Quotes: "This is the book our field has been waiting for. Policing Not Protecting Families ties together an analysis of the history and present functioning of the child welfare system, and larger questions of poverty governance in the United States. It views the child welfare system as one of many state systems that manage, surveilles and punishes disproportionately poor Black and brown populations, and examines the interrelations, both theoretical, and day-to- day practical, between the child welfare and other forms of policing. The book's final section offers different, competing views on paths forward, ensuring that this work can be translated into concrete action."-- "Mical Raz, author of Abusive Policies: How the American Child Welfare System Lost Its Way"