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Frames of Justice
Implications for Social Policy
Leroy H. Pelton
Building Community
Capacity
Robert J. Chaskin, Prudence Brown,
Sudhir Venkatesh, and Avis Vidal
This work is devoted to
analyzing three major
frames of justice – group
justice, individual desert,
and life affirmation – and
their implications for
social policy.
Pelton compares and
contrasts the philosophies
of nonviolence and
liberalism in regard
to these frames, and
explores the relationships between principle,
sentiment, reason, justice, and policy. He discusses
social science’s problematic relationship to justice
in policymaking – for instance, how scholars have
focused more on the effectiveness of policies,
largely in terms of statistical outcomes reflecting
aggregate data analyses, than on their justice. He
goes on to explore in depth how frames of justice
give direction to social policies, including those of
genocide.
Frames of Justice is an outstanding work that
analyzes the question of justice and social policy,
while simultaneously exploring the notion of desert
in religion, philosophy, and legislation – especially
within the context of the moral question of the
relationship between means and ends – and
contrasting it with the principle of life affirmation.
Contents
1 Biblical Justice
2 Nonviolence and Liberal Philosophy
3 Principle and Sentiment
4 Social Science and Public Policy
5 Need, Desert, and Nondiscrimination
6 Justice and Social Policy
7 Frame Politics
8 Faith and Reason
References; Index
2005, 233 pages, 6 x 9”
0-7658-0296-1 / 978-0-7658-0296-5
paper $63.95 CRO
Drawing on extensive
case study data from
three significant
community-building
initiatives, program data
from numerous other
community capacitybuilding
efforts, key
informant interviews, and
an excellent literature
review, the authors draw
implications for crafting
community change strategies as well as for creating
and sustaining the organizational infrastructure
necessary to support them. Social work scholars
and students of community practice seeking new
conceptual frameworks and insights from research
to inform novel community interventions will find
much of value in Building Community Capacity.
Building Community Capacity takes a collaborative,
interdisciplinary approach to a subject of wide
current concern: the role of neighborhood and
community structures in the delivery of human
services or, as the authors put it, “a place where
programs and problems can be fitted together.”
Contents
Introduction
1 Community Capacity and Capacity Building: A Definitional
Framework
2 Leadership Development
3 Organizational Development
4 Community Organizing
5 Collaborations, Partnerships, and Organizational
Networks
6 Conclusion: Possibilities, Limitations, and Next Steps
Appendices
Acronym
References
Index
2001, 268 pages, 6 x 9”
0-202-30640-2 / 978-0-202-30640-7
paper $34.95 CRO
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