Analysis of the West Virginia Child Abuse and Neglect 2005 Court Improvement Program's re-evaluation

This is a secondary Analysis of the West Virginia Child Abuse and Neglect Circuit Courtroom system based on the 1995 and 2005 Court Improvement Programs State Evaluations. This article focuses on the West Virginia child abuse and neglect court in relation to Reasonable Efforts Policy. The Evaluations gathered responses from the Judges, Prosecutors and Caseworkers. We reviewed the responses using Jacob and Eisenstein's courtroom workgroup model. Our analysis reveals that policy as an ideal and in practice enacts power over the courtroom workgroups ability to comply with federal standards. These standards and policy requirements create tension and precedence for an uneven power hierarchy in the courtroom workgroup. The Court Improvement Program has not looked at their interview responses from a sociological perspective until this essay.

Name thesis:degree_name

MA

Level thesis:degree_level

Thesis

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Sociology and Anthropology

Year dc:date.available

2006

Author dc:creator

• Rood, Kathryn Alexandra

Contributors dc:contributor

• Ronald Althouse.
• Corey Colyer
• James J. Nolan

• Sociology
• Individual & family studies
• Criminology

Identifier

https://researchrepository.wvu.edu/etd/745

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:researchrepository.wvu.edu:etd-1748