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Karen Swift
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Professor Emeritus
Office: Ross Building, S863
Phone: 416-736-2100
Email: kswift@yorku.ca
Primary website: http://www.atkinson.yorku.ca/~sowk/faculty/kswift.html
Research Interests
Social Work
, Women, Child welfare, Feminism, Social policy
Current Research Projects
kswift
Linking Research, Policy and Action for Positive Youth Development in Marginalized Urban Communities
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Risk and Risk Assessment in Child Welfare
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Social policy in Canada
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Description:
Social policy in Canada. Research on current policies, programs and trends.
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Role:
Principle Researcher
Books
Publication
Year
Graham, J., Swift, K. and Delaney, R. 2008. Canadian Social Policy: An Introduction. Third Edition. Toronto: Prentice Hall.
2008
Graham, J., Swift, K. and Delaney, R. 2000. An Swift, Karen. 1995. Manufacturing "Bad Mothers": A Critical Perspective on Child Neglect. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.
2000
Swift, Karen. 1995. Manufacturing "Bad Mothers": A Critical Perspective on Child Neglect. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.
1995
Book Chapters
Publication
Year
Swift, K. and Callahan, M. 2006. Problems and Potential in Canadian Child Welfare. In Nancy Freymond and Gary Cameron (Eds.). Towards Positive Systems of Child and Family Welfare: International Comparison of Child Protection, Family Service, and Community Caring Systems, pp. 118-147. Toronto, ON: University of Toronto Press.
2007
Callahan, M. and Swift, K. 2007. Risk Assessment and Managerial Practices in Child Welfare. In Foster, L. and Wharf, B. (Eds.) . People, Politics and Child Welfare. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press.
2007
Goodman, D., Callahan, M. and Swift, K. 2007. The contradictions of risk assessment in child welfare for mothers who use substances. In Freymond, N., and Greaves, L. (Eds.) . Highs and Lows: Canadian Perspectives on Women and Substance Use. Toronto: Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH).
2007
Swift, K. and Callahan, M. 2006. Problems and Potential in Canadian Child Welfare. In Nancy Freymond and Gary Cameron (Eds.). Towards Positive Systems of Child and Family Welfare: International Comparison of Child Protection, Family Service, and Community Caring Systems, pp. 118-147. Toronto, ON: University of Toronto Press.
2006
Swift, Karen. 2005. Child Welfare (Canada). In John M. Herrick and Paul H. Stuart (Eds.). Encyclopedia of Social Welfare in North America, pp. 52-55. Thousand Oaks: Sage Publications.
2005
Swift, Karen and Birmingham, Michael. 2000. Caring in a Globalizing Economy: Single Mothers on Assistance. In Durst, D. (Ed.) . Canada's National Child Benefit: Phoenix or Fizzle? Halifax: Fernwood Publishing: 84-102.
2000
Swift, Karen and Birmingham, Michael. 2000. Location, Location, Location: Restructuring and the Everyday Lives of 'Welfare Moms'. In Neysmith, S. (Ed.) . Restructuring Caring Labour: Discourse, State Practice and Everyday Life. Toronto: Oxford University Press: 93-115.
2000
Evans, Patricia M. and Swift, Karen J. 2000. Single Mothers and the Press: Rising Tides, Moral Panic, and Restructuring Discourses. In Neysmith, S. (Ed.) . Restructuring Caring Labour: Discourse, State Practice and Everyday Life Toronto: Oxford University Press: 73-92.
2000
Swift, Karen. 1998. Contradictions in Child Welfare: Neglect and Responsibility. In Baines, C., Evans, P. and Neysmith, S., (Eds.). Women's Caring: A Feminist Perspective on Social Welfare. Second Edition. Toronto: Oxford University Press: 160-87.
1998
Swift, Karen. Child Abuse Reporting Systems in Canada. 1997. In Gilbert, Neil, (Ed.)., Combatting Child Abuse: An International Perspective on Reporting Systems. New York: Oxford University Press: 38-71.
1997
Swift, Karen. 1996. An outrage to common decency: Historical Perspectives on Child Neglect. In Smith, E. and Merkel-Holguin (Eds.). A History of Child Welfare. New Brunswick, USA: Transaction Publishers: 61-81.
1996
Swift, Karen and Lyle Longclaws. 1995. Foster care Programming: Themes, Policy Implications and Research Agenda. In Hudson, Joe and Galaway, Burt, (Eds.) Child Welfare in Canada: Research and Policy Implications. Thompson Educational Publishing, Inc.: 245-51.
1995
Journal Articles
Publication
Year
Swift, K. and Parada, H. 2004. Child welfare reform: Protecting children or policing the poor? Journal of Law and Social Policy. Vol. 19: 1-17.
2004
Swift, Karen. 2001. The Case for Opposition: An Examination of Contemporary Child Welfare Policy Directions. Canadian Review of Social Policy. 47, Spring. In press.
2001
Stainton, T. and Swift, K. 1997. Difference and Social Work Curriculum. Canadian Social Work Review. Vol. 13, 1: 75-87.
1997
Swift, Karen. 1995. An Outrage to Common Decency: Historical Perspectives on Child Neglect. Child Welfare, 74, 1: 71-91.
1995
Swift, Karen. 1995. Missing Persons: Women in Child Welfare. Child Welfare. 74, 2: 486-502
1995
Conference Papers
Publication
Year
Swift, K. Risky women: The role of risk in the construction of the single mothers. Paper delivered at the Law and Society Association Conference, Montreal, May 31, 2008.
2008
Swift, K. 2006. Cultural contradictions in child welfare risk assessment. The Foster Care Operators’ Association of Ontario. Toronto, ON. May 3, 2006.
2006
Swift, K. The Cultural Contradictions of Risk Assessment in Child Welfare. XVI International Congress on Child Abuse and Neglect. September 3-6, 2006. York, UK. With M. Callahan.
2006
Swift, K. Variations in child maltreatment rates: Epidemiological reality or changing standards? Association canadienne francaise pour l’avancement des sciences. Montreal, QC. May 17, 2006.
2006
Swift, K. Keynote speaker. Mothering in Social Work Theory and Practice: Conference sponsored by the Association for Research on Mothering. February 25, 2005.
2005
Swift, K. Forging Social Futures: Illuminating the interaction of housing and risk assessment in child protection. Canadian Social Policy Conference. Fredericton, NB. June, 2005. Marilyn Callahan, Karen Swift and Henry Parada.
2005
Swift, K. Institutional Alchemy: From Social Problem to Individual Responsibility. British Sociological Association Annual Conference. University of York. March, 2005. With H. Parada.
2005
Swift, K. Institutional Alchemy. Institutional Ethnography Network Conference. Toronto, September, 2004. With H. Parada.
2004
Residence, mobility and risk assessment in child welfare. May 11, 2004. Canadian Association of Schools of Social Work, Winnipeg, May, 2004. M. Callahan and K. Swift.
2004
Swift, K. Developing Transformative Practice: Practical Applications of Institutional Ethnography. Workshop: Canadian Association of Schools of Social Work, Toronto, May 2002.
2002
Swift, K. Institutional Ethnography and the Welfare State: A Case Study of Risk Assessment. Institutional Ethnography Network Conference. Victoria, BC, June 28-30, 2002. With M. Callahan.
2002
Swift, K. Problems and Potential for Canadian Child Welfare. Paper presented with Marilyn Callahan at Positive Systems of Child and Family Welfare Conference, an international conference, Wilfrid Laurier University, June 20-22, 2002.
2002
Swift, K. The Challenge to Risk and Risk Assessment in Child Welfare and Other Human Services. Canadian Association of Schools of Social Work. Toronto, May, 2002. With M. Callahan.
2002
2001 A Feminist Analysis of Child Welfare. Speech given at a meeting of the Ontario Association of Interval and Transition Houses. June 25, 2001, Swift, K.
2001
Swift, K. Conference on Canadian Social Welfare Policy. Calgary, June 17-20, 2001. Can Child Welfare policy promote Social Inclusion? The Case of Substance Abuse. With Xiaobei Chen.
2001
2000 Risk Policy in Child Protection. Paper presented at the Institutional Ethnography conference. Toronto. May, 2000, Swift, K.
2000
1999 Trends and Issues in Canadian Child Welfare. Developing Child Welfare Curriculum Across Borders. Victoria, BC. May, 1999, Swift, K.
1999
1998 Constructing Single Mothers: Rising Tides and Moral Panic. Robarts Centre for Canadian Studies. Presented with P. Evans at the Seminar series, Canadian Families Transformed: Toward the Millennium. October 28, 1998, Swift, K.
1998
1998 New Perspectives on Neglect. International Workshop sponsored by Washington State Department of Social and Health Services, Seattle, Washington, February, 1998, Swift, K.
1998
1997 International Implications of Manufacturing 'Bad Mothers'. Symposium on women and violence at the Inter American Congress of Psychology. Sao Paolo, Brazil. July, 1997, Swift, K.
1997
Swift, K. 1996 Cross Cultural Practice Skills: Research Results. Centre for Applied Family Studies, McGill University.
1996
1996 Manufacturing 'Bad Mothers': The Experience of Research and Writing on Women. Women's studies students, McGill University:
1996
1995 Canadian Child Abuse Reporting Systems. Paper presented to the International Working Group on Child Abuse. Amsterdam, May 20-22, 1995.
1995
Conference Proceedings
Publication
Year
Swift, Karen. 1996. "Child Welfare Across Cultures: The Development of Practice Skills". In Proceedings of the Second Symposium on Child Protection, St. John's Newfoundland.
1996
Public Lectures
Publication
Year
Swift, K. The legal tender of gender: International perspectives on welfare law, state politics and the regulation of women’s poverty. International Institute of the Sociology of Law. Onati, Spain. May, 2007.
2007
Swift, K. Keynote speaker, Homecoming event. School of Social Work, University of Manitoba. September 22, 2005.
2005
Swift, K. Speaker. Risk Assessment in Child Welfare. Conference sponsored by Foster Care Operators Association of Ontario, University of Toronto, April 19. 2005.
2005
Swift, K. Child Welfare Reform: Protecting children or policing the poor? Presentation given at the Law Clinic Conference, Hamilton, ON, June 23, 2003.
2003
Canadian Association Schools of Social Work, Quebec City. June, 2001, Swift, K.
2001
Conference on Canadian Social Welfare Policy. Calgary, June 17-20, 2001. Can Child Welfare policy promote Social Inclusion? The Case of Substance Abuse, Swift, K.
2001
Conference, Ontario Association of Health Centres. Workshop: Rockin' and Rollin' with Research Workshop. Focus Group Research: Methodology and Beneifts. June 9, 2001, Swift, K.
2001
Constructing the Single Mother 'Problem'. Paper presented with P. Evans at the Ninth Social Welfare Policy Conference, Montreal. June, 1999, Swift, K.
1999
Failure to Protect: Child Welfare Work and Changing Families. Canadian Association of Schools of Social Work, Sherbrooke, PQ. June, 1999, Swift, K.
1999
Failure to Protect: Child Welfare Work in Context. International Sociological Association, Professions Group. Montreal. August, 1998, Swift, K.
1998
Do Mothers Work? Relations between Globalization and Welfare. Society for the Advancement of Socioeconomics. Montreal. July, 1997, Swift, K.
1997
Ideologies of Work: Single Mothers in the Post Welfare State. Eighth Social Welfare Policy Conference. Regina, Sask. June, 1997, Swift, K.
1997
The Effective Cross Cultural Social Worker: Research on Knowledge and Practice. Paper presented at the Social Work Learned Societies. Brock University, June, 1996, Swift, K.
1996
"Child Welfare Across Cultures: The Development of Practice Skills". Paper presented at the Second Symposium on Child Protection, Memorial University, St. John's Newfoundland, June, 1995, Swift, K.
1995
"Hiding Poverty: The Example of Child Neglect". Paper presented at the Social Work Learned Societies. Montreal, June, 1995, Swift, K.
1995
Research Interests
Social Work
, Women, Child welfare, Feminism, Social policy
Current Research Projects
kswift
Linking Research, Policy and Action for Positive Youth Development in Marginalized Urban Communities
Risk and Risk Assessment in Child Welfare
Social policy in Canada
-
Description:
Social policy in Canada. Research on current policies, programs and trends.
Role: Principle ResearcherAll Publications
Book Chapters
Publication
Year
Swift, K. and Callahan, M. 2006. Problems and Potential in Canadian Child Welfare. In Nancy Freymond and Gary Cameron (Eds.). Towards Positive Systems of Child and Family Welfare: International Comparison of Child Protection, Family Service, and Community Caring Systems, pp. 118-147. Toronto, ON: University of Toronto Press.
2007
Callahan, M. and Swift, K. 2007. Risk Assessment and Managerial Practices in Child Welfare. In Foster, L. and Wharf, B. (Eds.) . People, Politics and Child Welfare. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press.
2007
Goodman, D., Callahan, M. and Swift, K. 2007. The contradictions of risk assessment in child welfare for mothers who use substances. In Freymond, N., and Greaves, L. (Eds.) . Highs and Lows: Canadian Perspectives on Women and Substance Use. Toronto: Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH).
2007
Swift, K. and Callahan, M. 2006. Problems and Potential in Canadian Child Welfare. In Nancy Freymond and Gary Cameron (Eds.). Towards Positive Systems of Child and Family Welfare: International Comparison of Child Protection, Family Service, and Community Caring Systems, pp. 118-147. Toronto, ON: University of Toronto Press.
2006
Swift, Karen. 2005. Child Welfare (Canada). In John M. Herrick and Paul H. Stuart (Eds.). Encyclopedia of Social Welfare in North America, pp. 52-55. Thousand Oaks: Sage Publications.
2005
Swift, Karen and Birmingham, Michael. 2000. Caring in a Globalizing Economy: Single Mothers on Assistance. In Durst, D. (Ed.) . Canada's National Child Benefit: Phoenix or Fizzle? Halifax: Fernwood Publishing: 84-102.
2000
Swift, Karen and Birmingham, Michael. 2000. Location, Location, Location: Restructuring and the Everyday Lives of 'Welfare Moms'. In Neysmith, S. (Ed.) . Restructuring Caring Labour: Discourse, State Practice and Everyday Life. Toronto: Oxford University Press: 93-115.
2000
Evans, Patricia M. and Swift, Karen J. 2000. Single Mothers and the Press: Rising Tides, Moral Panic, and Restructuring Discourses. In Neysmith, S. (Ed.) . Restructuring Caring Labour: Discourse, State Practice and Everyday Life Toronto: Oxford University Press: 73-92.
2000
Swift, Karen. 1998. Contradictions in Child Welfare: Neglect and Responsibility. In Baines, C., Evans, P. and Neysmith, S., (Eds.). Women's Caring: A Feminist Perspective on Social Welfare. Second Edition. Toronto: Oxford University Press: 160-87.
1998
Swift, Karen. Child Abuse Reporting Systems in Canada. 1997. In Gilbert, Neil, (Ed.)., Combatting Child Abuse: An International Perspective on Reporting Systems. New York: Oxford University Press: 38-71.
1997
Swift, Karen. 1996. An outrage to common decency: Historical Perspectives on Child Neglect. In Smith, E. and Merkel-Holguin (Eds.). A History of Child Welfare. New Brunswick, USA: Transaction Publishers: 61-81.
1996
Swift, Karen and Lyle Longclaws. 1995. Foster care Programming: Themes, Policy Implications and Research Agenda. In Hudson, Joe and Galaway, Burt, (Eds.) Child Welfare in Canada: Research and Policy Implications. Thompson Educational Publishing, Inc.: 245-51.
1995
Books
Publication
Year
Graham, J., Swift, K. and Delaney, R. 2008. Canadian Social Policy: An Introduction. Third Edition. Toronto: Prentice Hall.
2008
Graham, J., Swift, K. and Delaney, R. 2000. An Swift, Karen. 1995. Manufacturing "Bad Mothers": A Critical Perspective on Child Neglect. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.
2000
Swift, Karen. 1995. Manufacturing "Bad Mothers": A Critical Perspective on Child Neglect. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.
1995
Journal Articles
Publication
Year
Swift, K. and Parada, H. 2004. Child welfare reform: Protecting children or policing the poor? Journal of Law and Social Policy. Vol. 19: 1-17.
2004
Swift, Karen. 2001. The Case for Opposition: An Examination of Contemporary Child Welfare Policy Directions. Canadian Review of Social Policy. 47, Spring. In press.
2001
Stainton, T. and Swift, K. 1997. Difference and Social Work Curriculum. Canadian Social Work Review. Vol. 13, 1: 75-87.
1997
Swift, Karen. 1995. An Outrage to Common Decency: Historical Perspectives on Child Neglect. Child Welfare, 74, 1: 71-91.
1995
Swift, Karen. 1995. Missing Persons: Women in Child Welfare. Child Welfare. 74, 2: 486-502
1995
Conference Papers
Publication
Year
Swift, K. Risky women: The role of risk in the construction of the single mothers. Paper delivered at the Law and Society Association Conference, Montreal, May 31, 2008.
2008
Swift, K. 2006. Cultural contradictions in child welfare risk assessment. The Foster Care Operators’ Association of Ontario. Toronto, ON. May 3, 2006.
2006
Swift, K. The Cultural Contradictions of Risk Assessment in Child Welfare. XVI International Congress on Child Abuse and Neglect. September 3-6, 2006. York, UK. With M. Callahan.
2006
Swift, K. Variations in child maltreatment rates: Epidemiological reality or changing standards? Association canadienne francaise pour l’avancement des sciences. Montreal, QC. May 17, 2006.
2006
Swift, K. Keynote speaker. Mothering in Social Work Theory and Practice: Conference sponsored by the Association for Research on Mothering. February 25, 2005.
2005
Swift, K. Forging Social Futures: Illuminating the interaction of housing and risk assessment in child protection. Canadian Social Policy Conference. Fredericton, NB. June, 2005. Marilyn Callahan, Karen Swift and Henry Parada.
2005
Swift, K. Institutional Alchemy: From Social Problem to Individual Responsibility. British Sociological Association Annual Conference. University of York. March, 2005. With H. Parada.
2005
Swift, K. Institutional Alchemy. Institutional Ethnography Network Conference. Toronto, September, 2004. With H. Parada.
2004
Residence, mobility and risk assessment in child welfare. May 11, 2004. Canadian Association of Schools of Social Work, Winnipeg, May, 2004. M. Callahan and K. Swift.
2004
Swift, K. Developing Transformative Practice: Practical Applications of Institutional Ethnography. Workshop: Canadian Association of Schools of Social Work, Toronto, May 2002.
2002
Swift, K. Institutional Ethnography and the Welfare State: A Case Study of Risk Assessment. Institutional Ethnography Network Conference. Victoria, BC, June 28-30, 2002. With M. Callahan.
2002
Swift, K. Problems and Potential for Canadian Child Welfare. Paper presented with Marilyn Callahan at Positive Systems of Child and Family Welfare Conference, an international conference, Wilfrid Laurier University, June 20-22, 2002.
2002
Swift, K. The Challenge to Risk and Risk Assessment in Child Welfare and Other Human Services. Canadian Association of Schools of Social Work. Toronto, May, 2002. With M. Callahan.
2002
2001 A Feminist Analysis of Child Welfare. Speech given at a meeting of the Ontario Association of Interval and Transition Houses. June 25, 2001, Swift, K.
2001
Swift, K. Conference on Canadian Social Welfare Policy. Calgary, June 17-20, 2001. Can Child Welfare policy promote Social Inclusion? The Case of Substance Abuse. With Xiaobei Chen.
2001
2000 Risk Policy in Child Protection. Paper presented at the Institutional Ethnography conference. Toronto. May, 2000, Swift, K.
2000
1999 Trends and Issues in Canadian Child Welfare. Developing Child Welfare Curriculum Across Borders. Victoria, BC. May, 1999, Swift, K.
1999
1998 Constructing Single Mothers: Rising Tides and Moral Panic. Robarts Centre for Canadian Studies. Presented with P. Evans at the Seminar series, Canadian Families Transformed: Toward the Millennium. October 28, 1998, Swift, K.
1998
1998 New Perspectives on Neglect. International Workshop sponsored by Washington State Department of Social and Health Services, Seattle, Washington, February, 1998, Swift, K.
1998
1997 International Implications of Manufacturing 'Bad Mothers'. Symposium on women and violence at the Inter American Congress of Psychology. Sao Paolo, Brazil. July, 1997, Swift, K.
1997
Swift, K. 1996 Cross Cultural Practice Skills: Research Results. Centre for Applied Family Studies, McGill University.
1996
1996 Manufacturing 'Bad Mothers': The Experience of Research and Writing on Women. Women's studies students, McGill University:
1996
1995 Canadian Child Abuse Reporting Systems. Paper presented to the International Working Group on Child Abuse. Amsterdam, May 20-22, 1995.
1995
Conference Proceedings
Publication
Year
Swift, Karen. 1996. "Child Welfare Across Cultures: The Development of Practice Skills". In Proceedings of the Second Symposium on Child Protection, St. John's Newfoundland.
1996
Public Lectures
Publication
Year
Swift, K. The legal tender of gender: International perspectives on welfare law, state politics and the regulation of women’s poverty. International Institute of the Sociology of Law. Onati, Spain. May, 2007.
2007
Swift, K. Keynote speaker, Homecoming event. School of Social Work, University of Manitoba. September 22, 2005.
2005
Swift, K. Speaker. Risk Assessment in Child Welfare. Conference sponsored by Foster Care Operators Association of Ontario, University of Toronto, April 19. 2005.
2005
Swift, K. Child Welfare Reform: Protecting children or policing the poor? Presentation given at the Law Clinic Conference, Hamilton, ON, June 23, 2003.
2003
Canadian Association Schools of Social Work, Quebec City. June, 2001, Swift, K.
2001
Conference on Canadian Social Welfare Policy. Calgary, June 17-20, 2001. Can Child Welfare policy promote Social Inclusion? The Case of Substance Abuse, Swift, K.
2001
Conference, Ontario Association of Health Centres. Workshop: Rockin' and Rollin' with Research Workshop. Focus Group Research: Methodology and Beneifts. June 9, 2001, Swift, K.
2001
Constructing the Single Mother 'Problem'. Paper presented with P. Evans at the Ninth Social Welfare Policy Conference, Montreal. June, 1999, Swift, K.
1999
Failure to Protect: Child Welfare Work and Changing Families. Canadian Association of Schools of Social Work, Sherbrooke, PQ. June, 1999, Swift, K.
1999
Failure to Protect: Child Welfare Work in Context. International Sociological Association, Professions Group. Montreal. August, 1998, Swift, K.
1998
Do Mothers Work? Relations between Globalization and Welfare. Society for the Advancement of Socioeconomics. Montreal. July, 1997, Swift, K.
1997
Ideologies of Work: Single Mothers in the Post Welfare State. Eighth Social Welfare Policy Conference. Regina, Sask. June, 1997, Swift, K.
1997
The Effective Cross Cultural Social Worker: Research on Knowledge and Practice. Paper presented at the Social Work Learned Societies. Brock University, June, 1996, Swift, K.
1996
"Child Welfare Across Cultures: The Development of Practice Skills". Paper presented at the Second Symposium on Child Protection, Memorial University, St. John's Newfoundland, June, 1995, Swift, K.
1995
"Hiding Poverty: The Example of Child Neglect". Paper presented at the Social Work Learned Societies. Montreal, June, 1995, Swift, K.
1995
