We examine the effect of blame attribution and community cohesiveness (as proxied by community size) on public attitudes towards responsibility for mental health care. Data for this study were taken from the MacArthur Mental Health Module of the 1996 General Social Survey.
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The Poor You Have Always With You
The philosopher Santayana warned that those who do not know their own history are doomed to repeat it. That admonition is especially pertinent to discussions of social welfare in Indiana, where assistance programs reflect historic attitudes about poverty and service delivery is largely a product of the state?s political culture. In Indiana, as elsewhere, supporters of social welfare programs and the critics of those programs are still arguing about policies dating to 1349, when England enacted the Statute of Laborers, prohibiting alms, or charity, for those who had the ability to work–that is, to "sturdy beggars." This first attempt to deal with what we would later call welfare was not about providing assistance; it was about forcing people to work.
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Writing as Thinking
Until you can express a thought clearly and cogently, that thought does not yet exist.
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Social Responsibility, Accountability and U.S. Welfare Reform: The Context of America’s Faith Based
Accountability is problematic when there is not clarity of expectations or agreed-upon goals, and that lack of clarity has long been a characteristic of social welfare in the United States.
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Redemption and Rehabilitation: Charitable Choice and Criminal Justice
Unlike social services like job training and placement, day care or medical assistance, such drug and prison programs are not merely faith-based, they are faith-infused. It is not accidental that so many prison programs are called “Ministries.”
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