Supporting Family Strengths: Orienting Policy and Practice toward the 21st Century

1995 ◽  
Vol 76 (3) ◽  
pp. 141-149 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ann Weick ◽  
Dennis Saleebey
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Treatment Strategies ◽  
Family Treatment ◽  
Community Life ◽  
Family Strengths ◽  
Policy And Practice ◽  
Cultural Challenges ◽  
Self Sufficiency ◽  
Support Family

Families today are under siege as they try to respond to economic, social, and cultural challenges beyond their control. The myths of economic self-sufficiency and psychological normalcy have engendered, in both public policy and family treatment, strategies that isolate, punish, and pathologize families. To move beyond these myths, it is necessary to draw more generous definitions of what constitutes family by placing families within the nurturing membrane of community life and actively seeking to support family strengths through imaginative and innovative policies and empowering practices.

What’s Next for a National Infrastructure Policy: An Encore or a Requiem?

2021 ◽  
pp. 1087724X2110146
Author(s):  
Richard G. Little
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Public Policy ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Environmental Sustainability ◽  
Infrastructure Systems ◽  
Infrastructure Policy ◽  
Policy Objectives ◽  
The Many ◽  
National Infrastructure ◽  
Roll Out

In an essay almost 30 years ago, Professor Dick Netzer of NYU asked the question “Do We Really Need a National Infrastructure Policy?” and came to the conclusion that we did not. As the Biden Administration prepares to roll out a multi-trillion dollar infrastructure package, the nation is faced with numerous questions regarding the infrastructure systems necessary to support continued economic growth and environmental sustainability. The purpose of this essay is to look to recent history for guidance for how to proceed by revisiting the underlying premises of the Netzer essay and reconsider whether a National Infrastructure Policy is needed. Because linking infrastructure to broader public policy objectives could both unite the nation and position it to address the many challenges that the 21st century will present, I believe the idea of a National Infrastructure Policy definitely deserves a second look.

Moving the National Institute of Justice Forward: July 2010 through December 2012

2021 ◽  
Vol 37 (2) ◽  
pp. 166-174
Author(s):  
John H. Laub
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Research Evidence ◽  
Evaluation Agency ◽  
Department Of Justice ◽  
Policy And Practice ◽  
Policy Initiatives ◽  
National Institute Of Justice ◽  
Rigorous Research ◽  
Criminology And Criminal Justice ◽  
New Strategies

Criminologists are often frustrated by the disconnect between sound empirical research and public policy initiatives. Recently, there have been several attempts to better connect research evidence and public policy. While these new strategies may well bear fruit, I believe the challenge is largely an intellectual one. Ideas and research evidence must guide public policy and practice. In this article, I present highlights from my tenure as the Director of the National Institute of Justice (NIJ), the research, development, and evaluation agency in the Department of Justice. One of the ideas that I emphasized at NIJ was “Translational Criminology.” I believe translational criminology acknowledges NIJ’s unique mission to facilitate rigorous research that is relevant to the practice and policy. I also discuss the challenges I faced in bringing research to bear on public policy and practice. I end with a call for my colleagues in criminology and criminal justice to become more involved in government.

Barriers to Employment among TANF Applicants and Their Consequences for Self-Sufficiency

2007 ◽  
Vol 88 (3) ◽  
pp. 379-389 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amy Dworsky ◽  
Mark E. Courtney
Keyword(s):  
Longitudinal Study ◽  
Welfare Policy ◽  
Policy And Practice ◽  
Potential Barriers ◽  
Milwaukee County ◽  
Self Sufficiency ◽  
Barriers To Employment ◽  
Using Data

This article examines the prevalence of potential barriers to employment using data from a longitudinal study of 1,075 Milwaukee County parents who applied for assistance from Wisconsin's TANF program in 1999. It also examines whether those potential barriers were related to their subsequent employment and earnings. We find that many of these TANF applicants faced significant and often multiple barriers to employment. Moreover, these potential barriers were associated with both a reduction in their likelihood of being employed and lower earnings when they worked. The implications of these findings for welfare policy and practice are discussed.

scholarly journals Driving Under the Influence of Our Fathers

2010 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Randi Hjalmarsson ◽  
Matthew J. Lindquist
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Cohort Study ◽  
Birth Cohort ◽  
Treatment Strategies ◽  
Drunk Driving ◽  
Driving Under The Influence ◽  
Birth Cohort Study

Abstract This paper uses data from the Stockholm Birth Cohort Study to document intergenerational associations in drunk driving between fathers and their children. The proportion of sons with a record of drunk driving is 2.3 times larger for sons whose fathers have a conviction for drunk driving than for sons whose fathers have not been convicted. For daughters, the proportion is 7.8 times larger. The average number of convictions is twice as large for sons whose fathers have a conviction for drunk driving than for sons whose fathers have not been convicted. For daughters, the average number of convictions is 15.3 times larger. We argue that these intergenerational associations in drunk driving have important implications for treatment strategies and public policy.

scholarly journals 21st Century Socialism: Making a State for Revolution

2012 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 537-554
Author(s):  
Lee Artz
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Cultural Values ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Cultural Practices ◽  
Field Research ◽  
Bolivarian Revolution ◽  
Media Access ◽  
Participatory Communication ◽  
Cultural Challenges ◽  
Public Media

The Bolivarian Revolution in Venezuela has built mass organizations of workers and communities that have erratically challenged class and market relations—verifying that taking political power is difficult but essential to fundamental social change and that capitalist cultural practices complicate the revolutionary process. This work identifies components of state power, separating state apparatus (government) as a crucial site for instituting social change. The case of democratic, participatory communication and public media access is presented as central to the successes and problems of Venezuelan 21st century socialism. Drawing on field research in community media in Caracas, the essay highlights some of the politico-cultural challenges and class contradictions in producing and distributing cultural values and social practices for a new socialist hegemony necessary for fundamental social change.

scholarly journals The Humanitarian-Development-Peace Nexus: Solving Rubik’s Cube in Policy and Practice

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 129
Author(s):  
Diego A. Cimino
Keyword(s):  
21St Century ◽  
Policy Making ◽  
Policy And Practice ◽  
International Policy ◽  
Rubik's Cube ◽  
Rubik’S Cube

Historically, the 20’s of each of the last centuries proved to be challenging years, where moments of historical opportunities were followed by daunting global difficulties. The 20’s of this 21st Century clearly followed the same historical destiny, with still an uncertain ending. Even before the Covid-19 pandemic, the geopolitical, economic, social and environmental complexities of today’s world appeared as inter-connected as ever before. The aim of this paper is to analyze most discussed nexuses in the international policy-making space, the so called “Humanitarian-Development-Peace Nexus” or “Triple-Nexus”, referred to the gradual coordination, cooperation, integration and interaction of humanitarian, development and peace actions and actors at all levels.

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