Race and Child Welfare Policy: State-Level Variations in Disproportionality

Race and Social Problems

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 93-101

  Foster, Carly Hayden ^a  

^a SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY EDWARDSVILLE   (United States)

Author keywords

Child welfare policy; Racial disproportionality

Indexed keywords

EID: 84873246594     PISSN: 18671748     EISSN: 18671756     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12552-012-9071-9     Document Type: Article

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