Li Leung, P. Hepburn, James R. Hendrickson, Matthew Desmond
{"title":"No Safe Harbor: Eviction Filing in Public Housing","authors":"Li Leung, P. Hepburn, James R. Hendrickson, Matthew Desmond","doi":"10.1086/725777","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/725777","url":null,"abstract":"Using the records of hundreds of thousands of court cases filed across the United States between 2010 and 2016, we assess whether residence in public housing reduces the risk of facing an eviction filing. Comparing with similar sets of private market renters, we demonstrate that those living in public housing face equal risk. Once filed against, public housing residents face a far higher risk of serial eviction filing. Within states, public and private market serial eviction filing rates are strongly correlated—evidence that public housing property managers respond to local eviction policies in ways that resemble their private market counterparts. We report on in-depth interviews with property managers from two housing authorities in Ohio. Property managers use the courts to facilitate rent collection in jurisdictions that enable the practice, but doing so does not necessarily result in better outcomes on evaluations conducted by the Department of Housing and Urban Development.","PeriodicalId":47665,"journal":{"name":"Social Service Review","volume":"97 1","pages":"456 - 497"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2023-08-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42501463","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Megan Doherty Bea, Mariana Amorim, Terri L. Friedline
{"title":"Public Cash Assistance and Spatial Predation: How State Cash-Transfer Environments Shape Payday Lender Geography","authors":"Megan Doherty Bea, Mariana Amorim, Terri L. Friedline","doi":"10.1086/725245","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/725245","url":null,"abstract":"In the past 3 decades, there has been a general contraction of social support while the high-cost lending industry has expanded. We examine how state-level variation in the generosity of Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) cash assistance affects the distribution of high-cost payday lenders across local communities between 2001 and 2017. When TANF support is relatively more generous, the density of payday lending storefronts increases in local communities, all else equal, suggesting that benefits are not enough to replace payday lending demand. Yet local communities also experience slower lender growth as TANF generosity increases, suggesting that the payday lending industry is less growth oriented under these conditions. Further analyses considering the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program and unemployment insurance confirm that the payday lending industry is sensitive to social program conditions. Findings suggest that the generosity of cash assistance can be leveraged to reduce the high-cost lending industry’s prevalence.","PeriodicalId":47665,"journal":{"name":"Social Service Review","volume":"97 1","pages":"498 - 539"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2023-08-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44301623","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Youth Justice at a Crossroads: Twenty-First Century Progressive Reforms and Lessons to Inform the Path Forward","authors":"Julia Lesnick, Laura S. Abrams, E. Barnert","doi":"10.1086/725710","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/725710","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47665,"journal":{"name":"Social Service Review","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2023-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43919655","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Nathanael J. Okpych, S. Park, Jenna Powers, Justin S. Harty, M. Courtney
{"title":"Relationships That Persist and Protect: The Role of Enduring Relationships on Early-Adult Outcomes among Youth Transitioning Out of Foster Care","authors":"Nathanael J. Okpych, S. Park, Jenna Powers, Justin S. Harty, M. Courtney","doi":"10.1086/724736","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/724736","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47665,"journal":{"name":"Social Service Review","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2023-07-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49082745","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Hard to Count? The 2020 Census “Citizenship Question” and Bureaucratic Visibility among Undocumented Latin Americans in Chicago","authors":"Hannah Obertino-Norwood, Angela S. García","doi":"10.1086/725212","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/725212","url":null,"abstract":"Census enumeration distributes resources and power and extends potential surveillance and punishment. Given these dual capacities, attempts to insert a citizenship question on the 2020 US Census heightened expectations of depressed participation among undocumented immigrants. We draw on data from 63 undocumented Latin American residents of Chicago to understand decision-making processes across 15 months of enumeration. Analyzing two interview waves conducted before and during the count (N=126), we find broad census uptake despite widespread perceptions of threat. Respondents situated themselves as invested community members embedded in state systems and explained census participation as a claim for investment in neighborhoods and families as well as recognition of their existence. Contributing to the concept of bureaucratic visibility, this article extends scholarship on system avoidance to illuminate how undocumented immigrants engage the bureaucratic arm of the state and navigate the contradiction of being counted by a government committed to their forced removal.","PeriodicalId":47665,"journal":{"name":"Social Service Review","volume":"97 1","pages":"540 - 568"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2023-07-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44019672","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"On Causal Inference and the Limits of Disproportionality as a Construct: The Case of Foster Care Placement","authors":"Fred Wulczyn","doi":"10.1086/724657","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/724657","url":null,"abstract":"The unwarranted disparities in our foster care system are the result of historical and structural causes. If we hope to correct these disparities by addressing their root causes, we must measure them carefully. In this article, I ask whether our usual measures of Black child/White child placement differences tell us what we need to know to act on those disparities with greater certainty. I specifically examine the limits of disproportionality as a measure. As a way to observe over- and underrepresentation, disproportionality is useful. When the discussion turns to the causes of differential treatment of Black children (or any other children) within the child protection system, there are more useful ways to measure those differences. I demonstrate this point in technical terms, and then I suggest alternative approaches to the measurement problems. Other approaches, I argue, offer a more vivid picture of the problem social workers are trying to solve.","PeriodicalId":47665,"journal":{"name":"Social Service Review","volume":"97 1","pages":"362 - 397"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44912741","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Poverty Reduction through Federal and State Policy Mechanisms: Variation over Time and across the United States","authors":"S. Bruch, Joseph van der Naald, J. Gornick","doi":"10.1086/724556","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/724556","url":null,"abstract":"The efficacy of the US antipoverty policy is shaped both by its reliance on categorical sorting and by its decentralized structure. To examine the implications of these features, this study introduces a novel disaggregation of poverty reduction instruments into four mechanisms: federal taxes and federal transfers (centralized) and state taxes and state transfers (decentralized). Using the Current Population Survey’s Annual Social and Economic Supplement data and a sequence-independent decomposition, this analysis assesses the relative effectiveness of the mechanisms at the national level between 1996 and 2016 and across the states in 2016. The study finds that absolute and relative poverty reduction is greater and has increased over time for working-age households with children compared with those without children. We also find cross-state variation in market- and disposable-income poverty and in the poverty reduction attributable to each of the redistributive mechanisms, highlighting the importance of examining poverty and antipoverty policy subnationally.","PeriodicalId":47665,"journal":{"name":"Social Service Review","volume":"97 1","pages":"270 - 319"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41704665","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Beyond the Auditable: Pathology, Professional Vision, and the Limits of Oversight for Regulating Psychotropic Drugs in Foster Care","authors":"Katherine Gibson","doi":"10.1086/724689","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/724689","url":null,"abstract":"This article draws from an 18-month ethnographic study of professional practices with psychotropic drugs in Illinois to demonstrate how psychotropic drugs are framed in policy and regulated in practice. I first show that disordered youth—rather than dysfunctional institutions—have been centered as the object of policy intervention. I then illustrate that whereas centering the disordered child as an object of intervention in public discourse requires one set of discursive maneuvers, another set of practices—namely, audits—is required to center the child as an object of knowledge around which professionals are organized. As auditors elicit treatment rationales in which drugs treat neurochemical disorder, prescribers and other professionals learn to represent youth in ways that pathologize them. Although audits can play an important role in the regulation of psychotropic drugs in foster care, child welfare systems must address the limits of audits, as well as their unintended effects.","PeriodicalId":47665,"journal":{"name":"Social Service Review","volume":"97 1","pages":"320 - 361"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48108648","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Parenting Strengths and Distress among Black Mothers Reported to the Child Welfare System: The Role of Social Network Quality","authors":"Abigail Williams-Butler, Reiko K. Boyd, K. Slack","doi":"10.1086/724564","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/724564","url":null,"abstract":"This study explores whether positive and negative aspects of social networks influence parenting strengths and distress. Our sample is drawn from the Getting Access to Income Now (GAIN) study, a randomized controlled trial designed to evaluate a child maltreatment prevention program in Milwaukee County, Wisconsin. Using prerandomization baseline survey data on the subgroup of respondents who identify as Black or African American mothers (N=402), we find that supportive social networks are associated with higher parental resilience, better parental emotional competence, and lower levels of parental distress. Social networks high in negativity had more negative parenting outcomes, but this relationship was moderated by the positive aspects of social networks. Social network positivity was more important than social network negativity in predicting positive outcomes. Findings may inform prevention strategies utilizing social networks and have critical implications for culturally sensitive practices and programs designed to amplify the strengths of Black mothers.","PeriodicalId":47665,"journal":{"name":"Social Service Review","volume":"97 1","pages":"231 - 269"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2023-04-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41856528","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}