Confronting Oppression, Restoring Justice: From Policy Analysis to Social Action

by Katherine Stuart van Wormer, Laura Kaplan, Cindy Juby

Confronting Oppression, Restoring Justice examines the twin forces of oppression and injustice and how social policies, cultural institutions, and prevailing ideologies promote or sustain them. Using an internationally informed perspective, it unpacks concepts such as internalization of oppression, injustice, restorative justice, social exclusion, empowerment, and critical consciousness. Since publication of the first edition of the book, sweeping changes related to the market economy, immigration, wars in the Middle East, and political leadership have taken place in the United States and beyond. Authors van Wormer, Kaplan, and Juby have updated this respected text to ensure relevancy and bring focus to new issues and perspectives while also enhancing areas covered in the first edition.

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I enjoyed reading this book. It is a treasure house of information and will provide students with a firm foundation to working in anti-oppressive and empowering ways. It is an impressive revision of the first edition. - --Lena Dominelli, Professor, School of Applied Social Sciences, Durham University

Katherine van Wormer, MSSW, Ph.D., grew up in New Orleans, taught English in Northern Ireland and is Professor of Social Work at the University of Northern Iowa. She worked extensively in the field of substance abuse counseling in Washington State and Norway. Dr. van Wormer has authored or co-authored 16 books. Her most recent contributions are two volumes of Human Behavior and the Social Environment, Micro and Macro Levels (Oxford University Press), Addiction A Strengths Perspective (Cengage), Women and the Criminal Justice System (Prentice Hall), and Death by Domestic Preventing the Murders and the Murder-Suicides (Praeger) Working with Female A Gender Sensitive Approach (Wiley), Restorative Justice Today (SAGE), Confronting Oppression, Restoring Justice (CSWE), and The Maid Black Domestics and White Families in the Jim Crow South. See book photos of maids' book at The Maid Narratives Facebook.

690 pages, Kindle Edition

First published January 1, 2004