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Record Nr.

UNINA9910815323103321

Autore

Connolly Marie

Titolo

Morals, rights and practice in the human services : effective and fair decision-making in health, social care and criminal justice / / Marie Connolly and Tony Ward

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; Philadelphia, : Jessica Kingsley, 2008

ISBN

1-281-14322-7

9786611143220

1-84642-716-9

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (204 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

WardTony <1954 Mar. 17->

Disciplina

361.32

Soggetti

Human rights

Social service - Sociological aspects

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

front cover; Morals, Rights and Practice in the Human Services: Effective and Fair Decision-Making in Health, Social Care and Criminal Justice; Contents; PREFACE; Part One: Exploring the Territory; Chapter 1: Understanding Human Rights; Chapter 2: Human Rights and Culture; Chapter 3;  Values, Rights and the State; Part Two: Navigating Rights and Practice; Chapter 4: Navigating Rights across the Life Course; Chapter 5: Losing Rights: Offenders on the Margins; Chapter 6: Claiming Rights: Disability and Human Rights; Chapter 7: Contesting Rights: Cultural Values and Children's Rights

Chapter 8: Respecting Rights: Service-user Rights in Child WelfarePart Three: Integrating Rights-based Ideas; Chapter 9: Rights-based Values in Practice Frameworks; Chapter 10: Embedding Rights-based Ideas; Concluding Thoughts; REFERENCES; SUBJECT INDEX; AUTHOR INDEX; back cover;

Sommario/riassunto

People respond passionately to issues of human rights, partly because they frame our expectations of fair treatment, equity and justice. Increasingly, work within the human services is influenced by rights-based discourses. Knowledge about the nature and scope of human rights and their attendant moral assumptions are essential theoretical



resources for human service workers faced with the ethical complexities of daily practice. Morals, Rights and Practice in the Human Services provides a synthesis of human rights theory and human services practice and offers a rights-based model to aid profess