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UBC Transaction Press Publishers 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 72 www.ubcpress.ca / 1 877 864 8477
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