Human Behavior in the Environment: A Justice for Vulnerable Populations Approach [Paperback]

1.Profiling Injustice: The Moral Imperative and Method.? 2.Critical and Pragmatic Problem Solving.? 3.Positionality in Rigged Hierarchies.? 4.Recognition Injustice.? 5.Resource Injustice.? 6.Representation Injustice.? 7.Rights Violations.? 8.Environmental Injustice.? 9.Privilege and Penalty. 10.Vulnerability and Resiliency.? 11.Plausible Explanations.

Social workers prioritize understanding and advocating for unjustly at-risk vulnerable populations. Honoring this moral imperative requires critical empathy, imagination, knowledge, theorizing, and action.

James Angelo Forte is a Professor at the School of Social Work, Salisbury University, a social worker, and a researcher/theorist with interests in critical symbolic interactionism, justice/injustice, vulnerable populations, and the legacy of Jane Addams.

Social workers prioritize understanding and advocating for unjustly at-risk vulnerable populations. Honoring this moral imperative requires critical empathy, imagination, knowledge, theorizing, and action.

This textbook provides a comprehensive, practical, and normative framework for assessing a population with a problem in a place, for using standards of justice to appraise what is , what could be (ideals), and what should be (norms), and for using the (in)justice profile as a foundation for planning transformative interventions. Focusing on marginalized and vulnerable populations, it shows their differential exposure to hazardous intersections and perilous paths, and the consequential harms they often suffer. Expanding on Nancy Frasers multi-theory, multidimensional justice paradigm, topics covered include the grounds of social works justice imperative; the forms of injustice-recognition denial, resource deprivation, representation deficiencies, and rights violations; environmental injustice and the ecosystems perspective; risks and protectors; creative agencyló¦