TY  - SER
AU  - Enosh, Guy
AU  - Bayer-Topilsky, Tali
TI  - Reasoning and bias: heuristics in safety assessment and placement decisions for children at risk
PY  - 2015///
PB  - Oxford Journals, 
KW  - CHILD PROTECTION
KW  - RISK ASSESSMENT
KW  - SOCIAL WORK PRACTICE
KW  - SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS
KW  - CHILD ABUSE
N1  - British Journal of Social Work, 2015, 45(6): 1771-1787
N2  - Whether the decision-making process for children at risk is biased against families from lower socio-economic or minority statuses remains a vexing question for social work practice and research. This study successfully isolates the subjective decision-making process and the intervening effect of overexposure of disadvantaged families to the welfare system by utilising a vignette-based factorial survey. The vignettes were drawn from actual welfare files of high, low and ambiguous risk and then edited to correspond with the experimental manipulation. One hundred and five child welfare case workers were asked to evaluate the vignettes, as follows: (i) to assess the level of risk to the child (‘subjective risk’) and (ii) to decide whether they would recommend out-of-home placement. (from the abstract). Record #4822
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/bjsw/bct213 
ER  -