scholarly journals Uneasy partnerships: Prisoner re-entry, family problems and state coercion in the era of neoliberalism

2021 ◽  
pp. 146247452110061
Author(s):  
Leonidas K Cheliotis ◽  
Tasseli McKay
Keyword(s):  
Child Support ◽  
Family Study ◽  
Child Protective Services ◽  
Protective Services ◽  
Parental Violence ◽  
Child Support Enforcement ◽  
Former Prisoners ◽  
State Coercion ◽  
Coercive Intervention

Hundreds of thousands of Americans are released from prison every year. Drawing on interviews conducted in the mid-2010s in the context of the Multi-site Family Study on Parenting, Partnering and Incarceration, this article explores how the strains of prisoner re-entry interact with those of poverty and family life, and how these combined strains condition proactive engagement with the legal system among re-entering individuals and their intimate and co-parenting partners. We focus our analysis on problems, tensions and struggles for control in parenting and partnership, including inter-parental violence, as these often led to calls or actions that clearly allowed for coercive intervention by parole authorities, courts, child support enforcement, or child protective services. We identify the precise circumstances and motives that lay behind such requests or allowances, and explain how these related to the cynical regard in which former prisoners and their partners typically held the coercive apparatus of the state. Through bringing our empirical findings into an interplay with scholarship on the role of punishment in the governance of poverty under neoliberalism, we examine how the strains faced by former prisoners' households and the tactics they used to deal with them pertain to broader politico-economic arrangements.

scholarly journals Leprosy and the Plague: State Surveillance of Low-Income Fathers

2013 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 124-139
Author(s):  
Monika Jean Ulrich Myers ◽  
Michael Wilson
Keyword(s):  
Social Control ◽  
Low Income ◽  
Child Support ◽  
Justice System ◽  
The United States ◽  
Social Benefits ◽  
Child Support Enforcement ◽  
The Social ◽  
State Surveillance

Foucault’s theory of state social control contrasts societal responses to leprosy, where deviants are exiled from society but promised freedom from social demands, and the plague, where deviants are controlled and surveyed within society but receive some state assistance in exchange for their cooperation.In this paper, I analyze how low-income fathers in the United States simultaneously experience social control consistent with leprosy and social control consistent with the plague but do not receive the social benefits that Foucault associates with either status.Through interviews with 57 low-income fathers, I investigate the role of state surveillance in their family lives through child support enforcement, the criminal justice system, and child protective services.Because they did not receive any benefits from compliance with this surveillance, they resisted it, primarily by dropping “off the radar.”Men justified their resistance in four ways: they had their own material needs, they did not want the child, they did not want to separate from their child’s mother or compliance was unnecessary.This resistance is consistent with Foucault’s distinction between leprosy and the plague.They believed that they did not receive the social benefits accorded to plague victims, so they attempted to be treated like lepers, excluded from social benefits but with no social demands or surveillance.

scholarly journals Child protective services decision-making: The role of children’s race and county factors.

2020 ◽  
Vol 90 (1) ◽  
pp. 48-62 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kathryn Maguire-Jack ◽  
Sarah A. Font ◽  
Rebecca Dillard
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Child Protective Services ◽  
Protective Services

scholarly journals Case Reports: Multifaceted Experiences Treating Youth with Severe Obesity

2019 ◽  
Vol 16 (6) ◽  
pp. 927 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karen Schaller ◽  
Linda Stephenson-Somers ◽  
Adolfo Ariza ◽  
Maheen Quadri ◽  
Helen Binns
Keyword(s):  
Severe Obesity ◽  
Child Protective Services ◽  
Case Reports ◽  
Tertiary Care ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Medical Team ◽  
Health Providers ◽  
Protective Services ◽  
Integral Role

The management of youth with severe obesity is strongly impacted by social determinants of health and family dynamics. We present case studies of three patients seen in our tertiary care obesity treatment clinic as examples of the challenges faced by these patients and their families, as well as by the medical team. We discuss how these cases illustrate potential barriers to care, the role of child protective services, and we reflect upon lessons learned through the care of these patients. These cases highlight the need for comprehensive care in the management of youth with severe obesity, which can include: visits to multiple medical specialists, and mental and behavioral health providers; school accommodations; linkage to community resources; and, potentially, child protective services involvement. Through the care of these youth, our medical team gained more experience with using anti-obesity medications and meal replacements. The care of these youth also heightened our appreciation for the integral role of mental health services and community-based resources in the management of youth with severe obesity.

A Review of Screened-Out Families and Child Protective Services Involvement: A Missed Opportunity to Prevent Future Maltreatment With Community-Based Services

2021 ◽  
pp. 107755952110335
Author(s):  
James D. Simon ◽  
María Gandarilla Ocampo ◽  
Brett Drake ◽  
Melissa Jonson-Reid
Keyword(s):  
Child Protective Services ◽  
State Level ◽  
Outcome Data ◽  
Intervention Research ◽  
Protective Services ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Level Data ◽  
Community Based Services ◽  
Missed Opportunity

The objective of this article is to frame, understand, and draw implications from existing research on families screened out by child protective services (CPS) after a referral alleging child maltreatment. We review descriptive and outcome data together with emerging intervention research amidst a developing consensus that the current reactive role of CPS should be supplemented by supportive and preventative services that primarily address poverty. State-level data indicate that screened-out families are at high risk of re-referral and similar to higher-risk families reported to CPS. Intervention research is scant and mixed, but there is indication that providing community-based services may reduce future CPS involvement. Considering that screened-out referrals present an opportunity to prevent future maltreatment, CPS should identify and collaboratively engage screened-out families in community-based services. More research on the outcomes of these community responses is needed to identify best practices related to engagement and service provision.

Child Abuse Consultations Initiated by Child Protective Services: The Role of Expert Opinions

2011 ◽  
Vol 11 (6) ◽  
pp. 467-473 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lindsay McGuire ◽  
Kimberly D. Martin ◽  
John M. Leventhal
Keyword(s):  
Child Abuse ◽  
Child Protective Services ◽  
Protective Services ◽  
Expert Opinions

Who Gets Protection? A National Study of Multiple Victimization and Child Protection Among Taiwanese Children

2016 ◽  
Vol 34 (17) ◽  
pp. 3737-3761 ◽  
Author(s):  
April Chiung-Tao Shen ◽  
Joyce Yen Feng ◽  
Jui-Ying Feng ◽  
Hsi-Sheng Wei ◽  
Yi-Ping Hsieh ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Sexual Violence ◽  
Community Violence ◽  
Child Protection ◽  
Child Protective Services ◽  
Protective Services ◽  
Parental Violence ◽  
Multiple Victimization ◽  
Child Victimization ◽  
And Behavior

This study aims to examine the prevalence of multiple types of child victimization and the effects of multiple types of victimization on children’s mental health and behavior in Taiwan. The study also examines the child-protection rate and its correlates among children experiencing various types of victimization. This study collected data with a self-report questionnaire from a national proportionately stratified sample of 6,233 fourth-grade students covering every city and county in Taiwan in 2014. After calculating the 1-year prevalence of child victimization, the study found that bullying was the most prevalent (71%), followed by physical neglect (66%), psychological violence (43%), inter-parental violence (28%), community violence (22%), physical abuse (21%), and sexual violence (9%). As the number of victimization types increased, children were more likely to report greater posttraumatic symptoms, psychiatric symptoms, suicide ideation, self-harm thoughts, and violent behaviors. Gender, neonatal status, parental marital status, and other family risks were significantly associated with elevated incidences of the victimization types. Only 20.6% of the children who had experienced all seven types of victimization had received child protective services. A child was more likely to receive child protective services if he or she had experienced sexual violence, community violence, inter-parental violence exposure, higher family risks, higher suicidal ideation, or living in a single-parent or separated family. In conclusion, this study demonstrates the cumulative effects and the harmful effects that children’s experience of multiple types of victimization can have on the children’s mental health and behavior. The present findings also raise alarms regarding the severity of under-serving in child-victimization cases. These results underscore the importance of assessing, identifying, and helping children with multiple victimization experiences.

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