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040 _aAFVC
100 _aEnosh, Guy
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245 _aReasoning and bias :
_bheuristics in safety assessment and placement decisions for children at risk
_cGuy Enosh & Tali Bayer-Topilsky
260 _bOxford Journals,
_c2015
500 _aBritish Journal of Social Work, 2015, 45(6): 1771-1787
520 _aWhether 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
650 _aCHILD PROTECTION
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650 4 _aRISK ASSESSMENT
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650 _aSOCIAL WORK PRACTICE
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650 5 _9568
_aSOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS
650 _9103
_aCHILD ABUSE
700 _aBayer-Topilsky, Tali
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773 0 _tBritish Journal of Social Work, 2015, 45(6): 1771-1787
830 _aBritish Journal of Social Work
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856 _uhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1093/bjsw/bct213
_zRead the abstract
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_cARTICLE
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